E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Troubled 10 year old boy, Elliot, summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
29 September 1969, Glendale, California, USA
3 June 1950, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 September 1971, San Antonio, Texas, USA
14 September 1967, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
10 April 1936, Camden, New Jersey, USA
21 July 1940, Kaplan, Louisiana, USA
16 September 1966, Hollywood, California, USA
4 October 1969, Miami, Florida, USA
6 December 1969, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
16 May 1955, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
14 December 1948, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
10 October 1941, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
7 December 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
4 March 1956, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
August 01, 2015
Spielberg would seem to be groping towards a virtual theology of space, space as Heaven, offering solace to a world which has foolishly renounced its traditional God but still aches to extend its own spiritual frontiers.June 29, 2015
Captivating, endearingly optimistic and magical at times, Steven Spielberg's fantasy about a stranded alien from outer space protected by three kids until it can arrange for passage home is certain to capture the imagination of the world's youth.June 19, 2015
Though marred by Spielberg's usual carelessness with narrative points, the film alternates sweetness and sarcasm with enough rhetorical sophistication to be fairly irresistible.June 29, 2015
There are many big moments in E.T., but also plenty of magical small ones that make it work after all these years.March 09, 2017
What makes the movie a masterpiece is the intensely visceral way in which Spielberg conveys these children feeling adult emotions for the first time.July 21, 2015
E.T. is essentially a spiritual autobiography, a portrait of the filmmaker as a typical suburban kid set apart by an uncommonly fervent, mystical imagination. It comes out disarmingly funny, spontaneous, bighearted.June 29, 2015
What's perhaps most amazing about E.T., what distinguishes it from many of the other fantasy films of its era, is its ability to put an audience under a spell of childlike wonderment without infantilizing it.January 13, 2016
Without a doubt, I can say this is a masterpiece. [Full review in Spanish]June 19, 2015
The movie is emotionally tumultuous and evenhanded and serene.June 29, 2015
It holds up beautifully.June 19, 2015
My heart still soars as Elliott goes airborne and pedals across the face of an impossibly full harvest moon on his bike.June 29, 2015
Spielberg's direction and Melissa Mathison's script never lose sight of the realistic, low center of gravity world of childhood, in which such marvelous adventures happen every day.