Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton
A family of aliens lands on earth, but leave their child here accidentally when they have to immediately leave. The frightened child alien (E.T.) wanders into the yard of a young boy (Elliot) and his family. Frightened at first by E.T., Elliot ventures out into his backyard to befriend the creature. He brings it into his home, sharing it with his brother and sister but keeping it a secret from his mother. Elliot and E.T become really close, but Elliot knows that E.T. really wants to go home to his family. Together they build a machine to contact E.T.'s parents. They receive it and plan on coming back to earth.
Before they come though, the government (who had been watching Elliot's house for a while) break in and confiscate E.T. They turn the house into a science lab, doing numerous experiments on E.T. and Elliot. E.T. dies, but because of the connection that the two share, Elliot's sorrow over his friend's death brings E.T. back to life. Elliot and his brother hijack a medical van and drive E.T to the woods to meet his parents. They find the spaceship and E.T. reunites with his parents and has to say goodbye to his new earth friends.
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Other mistake: In all the shots of ET wearing the white sheet the two eye holes are about a foot apart, so he could see out of the holes properly, but when Michael finds the white sheet ET had been wearing he lifts the material and we see that the two eye holes are only about two inches apart, which makes no sense. (It was Gertie's sheet that had eye holes so close together).
Elliot: Okay, he's a man from outer space, and we're taking him to his spaceship.
Greg: Well, can't he just beam up?
Elliot: This is reality, Greg.
Trivia: The little blonde girl Elliott kisses when the frogs are released is Erika Eleniak, who went on to become a Baywatch babe.
Question: Does anyone know the city this was filmed in, or any location used in the film?
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Chosen answer: According to IMDb, the filming locations for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial are: (1) 7121 Lonzo Street, Tujunga, L.A., California (2) Crescent City, California (3) Culver Studios, Culver City, California (4) Granada Hills, L.A., California (5) Northridge, L.A., California (6) Wrightwood, California.
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