E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Average Rating: 9/10
Reviews Counted: 97
Fresh: 95 | Rotten: 2
Playing as both an exciting sci-fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 1
Playing as both an exciting sci-fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.
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Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups. Henry Thomas plays Elliott, a young boy living with his single mother (Dee Wallace), his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore). Elliott often
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Cast
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Henry Thomas
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Dee Wallace
Mary -
Peter Coyote
Keys -
Robert MacNaughton
Michael -
Drew Barrymore
Gertie -
Debra Winger
E.T. [uncredited] -
K.C. Martel
Greg -
Sean Frye
Steve -
Erika Eleniak
Pretty girl -
David O'Dell
Schoolboy -
Richard Swingler
Science teacher -
Frank Toth
Policeman -
Robert Barton
Ultra sound man -
Michael Durrell
Van Man -
Tamara De Treaux
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C. Thomas Howell
Tyler -
Milt [Lewis] Kogan
Medic -
Robert Murphy
Medic -
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All Critics (97) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (95) | Rotten (2) | DVD (24)
It is the kind of film that young people are going to want to see again immediately after they've seen it.
Top CriticAn appealing film this new one is, with some charm, some glee in the childrens' triumphs, some share in their friendship with E.T.
More than the work of any other filmmaker, Spielberg's output seems uniquely designed to induce in me this queasy false-memory syndrome.
On inherent merit, the movie would not warrant such a highly publicized re-release, but this is one of those films that transcends what's on the screen.
A contemporary classic.
Though marred by Spielberg's usual carelessness with narrative points, the film alternates sweetness and sarcasm with enough rhetorical sophistication to be fairly irresistible.
This is a special, delightful adventure, in which Spielberg manages not only to entertain young children but also reach out to the child in all of us.
You're still gonna need those tissues.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial still evokes laughter, tears and that heart-lifting surge of joy only a great movie can bring.
Unchecked goodness has its price, after all, and childhood wonder wouldn't be nearly as sweet if it didn't fade. That may explain the film's appeal. It trapped that feeling, and its sense of possibility, in amber -- then, now, and for any time.
among all that corniness, there's a great little movie
...a celebration of kid culture from a time when fun meant riding your bike and playing D&D with your friends.
It makes us believe in magic again even as grizzled, cynical adults.
One of Spielberg's two or three masterpieces, an extremely satisfying sci-fi fable.
Steven Spielberg at his most pure.
Spielberg triumphantly succeeds in bringing the magical to the everyday.
It helped alter the course of sci-fi movies by suggesting that intergalactic aliens might not be monsters but friendly, even loving, creatures. This doesn't make it a masterpiece, but it's fun.
What I see is simply a timeless story about friendship, loss and maturity -- and, perhaps, an idealized America of the kind Hollywood and politicians strive to convince us could really exist.
...a bona fide classic that has something to offer moviegoers of all ages.
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- E.T. [uncredited]: E.T. phone home.
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- E.T. [uncredited]: I'll be right here.
- Elliott: [tearfully] Bye.
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- Michael: Did you explain school to him?
- Elliott: How do you explain school to higher intelligence?
- Michael: Maybe he's not that smart. Maybe he's like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something.
- Elliott: He is too smart.
- Michael: Okay, I just hope we don't wake up on Mars or something surrounded by millions of little squashy guys.
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- Gertie: I'm not fearing any man! I may not get there with you...
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- Elliott: You could be happy here, I could take care of you. I wouldn't let anybody hurt you. We could grow up together, E.T.
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- E.T. [uncredited]: ET... Phone... Home.
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Foreign Titles
- E.T. - Der Außerirdische (DE)
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (UK)
