E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
When he finds himself strange and foreign and confined to the ground, it seems that there is a young child will recognize him and become a new friend. The young boy Elliott brought the foreign creature to his California home in the suburbs, where Eliot introduces the creature called ET - as he is called a foreigner - to his little brother and sister Gerti. Children decide to keep it secret, but it does not last long when E.T gets sick, leading to government intervention and a miserable situation for everyone.
16 September 1966, Hollywood, California, USA
29 September 1969, Glendale, California, USA
16 May 1955, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
10 October 1941, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
6 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
22 February 1975, Culver City, California, USA
21 July 1940, Kaplan, Louisiana, USA
10 April 1936, Camden, New Jersey, USA
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.
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
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.
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
It holds up beautifully.
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
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.
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.
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
There are many big moments in E.T., but also plenty of magical small ones that make it work after all these years.
