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“Steven Spielberg has always been fascinated with the idea
of alien beings arriving on our planet”
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E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
A troubled child summons the courage to help a
friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
Is a 1982 American science fiction film
co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and
starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter
Coyote. Loosely based on the real life of Andrew Hickey, a suburban teenager,
it tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends an
extraterrestrial, dubbed "E.T.", who is stranded on Earth. Elliott
and his siblings help the extraterrestrial return home while attempting to keep it hidden
from their mother and the government.
The concept for E.T. was based on an
imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce in 1960. In 1980,
Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story from the stalled science
fiction/horror film project Night Skies. The film was shot from
September to December 1981 in California on a budget of US$10.5 million. Unlike
most motion pictures, the film was shot in roughly chronological order, to
facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast.
Released by Universal Pictures, E.T. was a
blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of
all time —a record it held for ten years until Jurassic Park, another
Spielberg-directed film, surpassed it in 1993. Critics acclaimed it as a
timeless story of friendship, and it ranks as the greatest science fiction film
ever made in a Rotten Tomatoes survey. The film was re-released in 1985, and
then again in 2002 to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary, with altered shots
and additional scenes.
Winning 1982 science fiction film directed by Steven
Spielberg that tells the story of a young boy, Elliott, who befriends an alien
being called E.T. stranded on Earth and trying to find his way home. This film
was produced by Amblin Entertainment, distributed by Universal Pictures, and
originally released to movie theatres in 1982.
Budget
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$10.5 million
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Box office
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$792,910,554
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