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Description of this E.T. Movie Poster
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison. It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an alien, nicknamed E.T., who has been abandoned on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help E.T. find his way home. The film stars Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore.
The film’s concept is based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents’ divorce. In 1980, Spielberg met with Mathison and developed a new story based on the unrealized project Night Skies. In less than two months, Mathison wrote the first draft of the screenplay, titled E.T. and Me, which would be rewritten twice. The draft was rejected by Columbia Pictures, which doubted its commercial potential. Universal Pictures eventually purchased the script for $1 million. Filming took place from September to December 1981 on a budget of $10.5 million. Unlike most films, E.T. was shot in rough chronological order to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young actors. The film’s animatronics were designed by Carlo Rambaldi.
E.T. premiered as the closing film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 26, 1982, and was released in the United States on June 11, 1982. The film was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for eleven years until Spielberg’s Jurassic Park surpassed it in 1993. E.T. was widely acclaimed by critics and is considered one of the greatest films of all time. It received nine nominations at the 55th Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing, and also won five Saturn Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. The film was re-released in 1985 and again in 2002 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, with altered shots, visual effects, and additional scenes. It was also re-released in IMAX on August 12, 2022, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. In 1994, the film was added to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, which deemed it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Alien creatures secretly visit Earth at night to collect plant specimens in a California forest. One of them separates from the group, fascinated by the distant city lights. U.S. government vehicles arrive and pursue the frightened creature. The other aliens leave, abandoning it on Earth. In a nearby San Fernando Valley neighborhood, ten-year-old Elliott Taylor’s suspicions are aroused when he throws a baseball into a tool shed and the ball is bounced back. Later that night, Elliott returns with a flashlight and discovers the creature among the corn stalks. He screams and flees the scene.
Despite his family’s disbelief, Elliott leaves a trail of candy to lure the alien into his home. Before going to bed, he realizes that the alien is mimicking his movements. The next morning, Elliott feigns illness to stay home and play with it. He can “feel” the alien’s thoughts and emotions, as evidenced when the alien accidentally opens an umbrella, startling him and simultaneously pulling Elliott into several rooms.
Later that day, Elliott introduces the alien to his older brother Michael and seven-year-old sister Gertie, deciding to keep it a secret from their mother, Mary. When the children ask the alien about its origins, it shows them by levitating several balls, representing its planetary system, and demonstrates its powers by reviving dead chrysanthemums. He demonstrates his healing power, thanks to his glowing fingertip, on a small cut on Elliott’s finger.
The next day at school, Elliott begins to feel a much stronger empathic connection with the alien, including showing signs of intoxication (because the alien is at Elliott’s house, where he drinks beer and watches television) and releasing the frogs in his biology class. While the alien watches John Wayne kiss Maureen O’Hara in The Quiet Man on television, Elliott kisses a girl he likes the same way and is sent to the principal’s office.
The alien calls himself “E.T.”, after reading a comic strip where a distressed Buck Rogers calls for help by building a makeshift communication device, and is inspired to try it himself. E.T. gets Elliott’s help to build a device to “phone home” using a Speak & Spell. Michael notices E.T.’s health is declining and Elliott is referring to himself as “we.” All the while, the boys are unaware that E.T. is being followed by government agents and that all three of them are being spied on. On Halloween night, Michael and Elliott disguise E.T. as a ghost to sneak him out. Elliott and E.T. go into the forest, where they manage to settle down. The next day, Elliott wakes up in the field to find E.T. missing. Elliott returns home to his worried family. Michael discovers E.T. dying near a culvert and brings him home to the dying Elliott. Mary is horrified to discover her son’s illness and the dying alien, just as a group of government agents wearing biohazard suits and led by “Keys” invade the house. Scientists set up a laboratory in the house, asking Michael, Mary, and Gertie what they know about E.T. While the scientists treat Elliott and E.T., the mental connection between Elliott and E.T. disappears. E.T. appears to die while Elliott recovers. Elliott is carried away and screams that the doctors are killing E.T. as they try to revive him. When the doctors pronounce E.T. dead, Michael discovers that the chrysanthemums E.T. previously revived are dying again. As Elliott recovers, the scientists initially return him to his family, but Keys leaves him alone with E.T. Elliott bids him a heartbreaking farewell and tells him he loves him before closing the case. Soon after, the light from E.T.’s heart begins to glow, and Elliott notices the chrysanthemum coming back to life and opens the case. E.T. reanimates and tells Elliott that his people have returned.
Elliott and Michael steal the van E.T. had been loaded into and a chase ensues, with Michael’s friends joining them on bicycles to elude the authorities. Suddenly, facing a police roadblock, E.T. helps them escape by using his telekinesis to lift them into the air, just in time, toward the forest, as he had done to Elliott before. Standing by the spaceship, E.T.’s heart glows as he prepares to return home, while Mary, Gertie, and Keys appear. E.T. says goodbye to Michael and Gertie, who gives him the flower he revived. Before boarding the spaceship, he kisses Elliott and says, “I’ll be there,” pointing his glowing finger at Elliott’s forehead. He picks up the chrysanthemum and boards the spaceship. As the others watch it take off, the ship leaves a rainbow in the sky.