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The story is quite a narrative accomplishment. At every moment from its beginning to its end, 'E.T.' is really about something. What is especially wonderful about all of those moments is that Steven Spielberg, who made this film, creates them out of legitimate and fascinating plot developments. Let me just say that the movie has moments of sheer ingenuity, moments of high comedy, some scary moments and a very sad sequence that has everybody blowing their noses.

wants to go home.Īnd from here on out, I'd better not describe what happens. The creature has the powers of telepathy and telekinesis, and one of the ways it communicates is to share its emotions with Elliott. moves into the house, and the center section of the film is an endless invention on the theme of an extra-terrestrial's introduction to bedrooms, televisions, telephones, refrigerators and six-packs of beer. The creature, which looks a little like Snoopy but is very, very wise, approaches the boy.

He just knows there's something living out there in the backyard, and he sits up all night with his flashlight, trying to coax the creature out of hiding with a nearly irresistible bait: Reese's Pieces. He doesn't come across as an overcoached professional kid he's natural, defiant, easily touched, conniving, brave and childlike. He is played by Henry Thomas in what has to be the best little boy performance I've ever seen in an American film. The movie's hero is one particular little boy named Elliott. of the title, is left behind on Earth-abandoned to a horrendous world of dogs, raccoons, automobile exhausts and curious little boys. They close in on the spaceship, and it is forced to take off and abandon one of its crew members. Humans arrive-authorities with flashlights and big stomping boots. In this forest one night, a spaceship lands, and queer-looking little creatures hobble out of it and go snuffling through the night, looking for plant specimens, I guess. The split-level houses march up and down the curved drives, carved out of hills that turn into forest a few blocks beyond the backyard. The movie takes place in and around a big American suburban development. But I can suggest some of the film's wonders. 'E.T.' is a movie of surprises, and I will not spoil any of them for you.

The Great Movies Read Ebert's essay on what makes 'E.T.' one of the great movies.

For ios instal E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial