Earth to Echo

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Earth to Echo

PG

2014

1h 29m

Kids & Family

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Drama

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After a construction project begins in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck (Brian "Astro" Bradley), Alex (Teo Halm) and Munch (Reese C. Hartwig) begin receiving strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. They immediately inform their parents and the authorities, but when no one takes them seriously, the youths decide to crack the code themselves and trace the messages to their source. The youths' curiosity leads them to a robotic extraterrestrial who desperately needs their help.

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Critics Consensus

Earth to Echo doesn't do itself any favors by beggaring comparison to E.T., but for younger viewers, it should prove a reasonably entertaining diversion.

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Joe McGovern

Entertainment Weekly

12/03/2014

C-

The mildewed found-footage technique allows some tension to build from offscreen action, but also renders the knockoff John Williams score inexplicable.

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

07/26/2014

3/5

Worth seeing for those who haven't seen it all before.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

07/25/2014

3/5

If you distilled this not intolerable film into a bottle, you could happily market it is as Essence of Spielberg.

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JD Duran

InSession Film

08/19/2024

C

Earth to Echo, it’s not that I’m mad at you, I’m just disappointed. Or is that just worse to say?

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Robert Sims

Lights Camera Austin

01/22/2022

From start to finish, Earth to Echo wants to jog our memories about the unforgettable experiences we have experienced with our best friends.

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

02/01/2021

2/5

Amiable but not terribly exciting. It has a distinct direct-to-video vibe, despite at least one eye-popping sequence of a truck being dismantled and reassembled.

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Ali T

@alimadbali Jan 26

ABSOLUTLY AMAZINGGGGG!!! Don't get the hate this movie gets but I LOVED it. Really great kids movie/coming of age.

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Baron D

@Decrponom Jan 10

Maybe I am biased, maybe im just a kid in the movie watching wrold, and maybe its just because this came out when I was 11. This was a grade A movie, I feel it on a personal level because I moved around alot and that impending "doom" of moving and trying to get in those last hours is real. Nothing and nobody can tell me this movie is bad for half reasons, like "it reminds me too much of E.T". This movie did it differently and I believe better than E.T (that may come with bias because its not from my time) This movie will hold a special place in heart for the time to come. Thank you Dave Green for capturing that childhood innocence.

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Chad T

@Chadoh Jan 10

This was a great little movie. To me it has no real connection to ET like some critics suggest. Sure it has kids helping an alien out to rebuild a ship to fly it back home, the difference is the ship has been hidden on the planet for quite some time and the little alien android was sent from wherever to retrieve it. Yet government officials shot the android down damaging it & it needs help to rebuild itself which is the pilot & the key to returning the ship to its place of origin. It’s about friends & that friendships don’t have to end even if you’re a few miles from each other or a few states or an even a few light years away.

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The Cursed Legion T

@GAVINSISEMORE Dec 7

As a kid this movie was amazing! definitely didn't appeal as much as it used to for me but if you have kids and are looking for a good family night movie this is a must see!

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Avi L

@RT58851522 08/07/2025

As a child this was a masterpiece to me.

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Charlie M

@RT14619322 03/31/2025

Not a masterpiece by any means when im looking at it as a boring adult; however, as a kid it was most definately a masterpiece.

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Synopsis

After a construction project begins in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck (Brian "Astro" Bradley), Alex (Teo Halm) and Munch (Reese C. Hartwig) begin receiving strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. They immediately inform their parents and the authorities, but when no one takes them seriously, the youths decide to crack the code themselves and trace the messages to their source. The youths' curiosity leads them to a robotic extraterrestrial who desperately needs their help.

Director: Dave Green
Producer: Ryan Kavanaugh, Andrew Panay
Screenwriter: Henry Gayden
Distributor: Relativity Media
Production Co: Panay Films
Rating: PG (Some Action/Peril|Mild Language)
Genre: Kids & Family, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 2, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 7, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $38.9M
Runtime: 1h 29m
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

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