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For the Atari 2600 video game based on the movie, see E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600).
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Original 1982 Theatrical Poster
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Written byMelissa Mathison
Produced bySteven Spielberg
Kathleen Kennedy
StarringHenry Thomas
Dee Wallace
Robert MacNaughton
Drew Barrymore
Peter Coyote
CinematographyAllen Daviau
Edited byCarol Littleton
Music byJohn Williams
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
June 11, 1982
July 19, 1985 (re-release)
March 22, 2002 (20th anniversary edition)
Running time
115 min. (1982)
120 min. (2002: 20th anniversary edition)
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10,500,000 USD (estimated)[1]
Box office$792,910,554

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace and Peter Coyote. It tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends a friendly alien, dubbed E.T., who is stranded on Earth. Elliott, and his siblings help the alien return home, while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.

The concept for E.T. came from an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce. When work on Night Skies stalled, Spielberg met screenwriter Melissa Mathison, whom he hired to pen the script for E.T. The film was shot from September to December 1981 in California on a budget of $10.5 million. To facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast, the film was shot in roughly chronological order.

The film was an enormous box office hit, surpassing Star Wars to become the most financially successful film released to that point. Critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it is considered one of the greatest films ever made. The alien became the subject of analogies for Jesus. The film was rereleased in 1985 and 2002, with altered special effects and additional scenes for the 2002 version. Spielberg believes it epitomizes his work.[2]

Plot

The film opens in a California forest as a group of alien botanists collect vegetation samples. Agents of the U.S. government appear, and the aliens flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to a typical California suburban home, where a boy named Elliott plays servant to his older brother, Michael, and his friends. As he fetches pizza, Elliott discovers the stranded alien botanist, who promptly flees. Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott leaves Reese's Pieces in the forest to lure it back into his bedroom. Before he goes to bed, Elliott notices the alien imitating his movements.

To avoid school the next day, Elliott feigns illness so that he can play with the alien. That afternoon, Michael and their younger sister Gertie meet the alien. Their mother, Mary, hears the noise and comes upstairs. Michael, Gertie and the alien hide in the closet, while Elliott reassures her everything is alright. Deciding to keep the alien, the three children begin to question it of its origin. It answers by levitating balls to represent its local solar system, and further demonstrates its supernatural powers by healing a dead plant. At school, Elliott begins to experience a psychic connection with the alien. Elliott becomes irrational, freeing all the frogs from a dissection class. As the alien watches John Wayne kiss Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man, Elliott's psychic link causes him to kiss a girl he likes in the same manner. Elliott is taken to the principal's office following his inappropriate behavior.

E.T. makes Elliott's bike fly to the forest

The alien learns to speak English by watching Sesame Street, and dubs itself "E.T." It enlists Elliott's help in building a device to "phone home". Michael starts to notice that Elliott's health is declining and that he is referring to himself as “we". On Halloween, Michael and Elliott dress E.T. up as a ghost, so they can sneak it out of the house. Elliott and E.T. ride a bicycle to the forest, where E.T. makes a successful call home. The next day, Elliott wakes up to find E.T. gone, and returns home to his distressed family. Michael finds E.T. dying, and takes him to Elliott, who is also dying. Mary becomes frightened when she discovers her son's illness and the dying alien, just as government agents invade the house.

Scientists set up a medical facility in the house, quarantining Elliott and E.T. The link between E.T. and Elliott disappears as E.T. suddenly dies. Elliott is left alone with the motionless alien when he notices a flower coming back to life. E.T. awakens and reveals that its people are returning. Elliott and Michael steal a car E.T. is loaded into and a chase ensues, with Michael's friends joining the evasion of the authorities. Suddenly facing a dead-end, they escape as E.T.’s telekinesis lifts them into the air and toward the forest. E.T. stands near the spaceship, his heart glowing as he readies to return home. Mary, Gertie and Keys, a government agent, show up. E.T. says goodbye to Michael and Gertie, and before entering, he tells Elliott "I'll be right here", pointing his glowing finger to Elliott's heart.

Cast

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Left to right: Henry Thomas as Eliott, Drew Barrymore as Gertie, and Robert MacNaughton as Michael
  • Henry Thomas as Elliott: A lonely 10-year-old boy who is picked on by his older brother and friends. Elliott adopts the stranded alien and forms a mental, physical, and emotional bond with it.
  • Robert MacNaughton as Michael: Elliott's older brother, who often picks on him.
  • Drew Barrymore as Gertie: Elliott's younger sister.
  • Dee Wallace as Mary: The children's mother, coming off a recent separation from her husband. She is mostly oblivious to the presence of the alien in her household.
  • Peter Coyote as Keys: A government agent dubbed as such due to jangling his keys at times. He has waited to see an alien since the age of 10.
  • K.C. Martel as Greg: A friend of Michael, who mostly picks on Elliott. He later helps Elliott and E.T. evade the authorities
  • Sean Frye as Steve: A friend of Michael, who helps Elliott and E.T. evade the authorities.
  • Tom Howell as Tyler: A friend of Michael, who helps Elliott and E.T. evade the authorities.

Spielberg auditioned over 300 children for the roles.[3] Having worked with Cary Guffey on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he felt confident in working with a cast composed mostly of child actors, rather than young adults.[4] Robert Fisk suggested Henry Thomas for the role of Elliott.[5] Thomas, who auditioned in an Indiana Jones costume, did not perform well in the formal testing, but in an improvised scene with the filmmakers, he got their attention.[4] His convincing tears were inspired by thoughts of his dead dog.[6] MacNaughton auditioned eight times to play Michael, sometimes with boys auditioning for Elliott. Spielberg felt Drew Barrymore had the right imagination for the film, after she impressed him with a story that she led a punk rock band.[5] Spielberg enjoyed working with the children, noting that the experience made him feel ready to become a father.[7]

Doctors working at the USC Medical Center were recruited by Spielberg to play the doctors who try to save E.T. after government agents take over Elliott's home, as he felt actors playing doctors and reading lines of technical dialogue would feel unnatural.[7] During post-production, Spielberg decided to cut a scene featuring Harrison Ford as Elliott's principal. The scene featured Elliott being reprimanded for his behavior in science class, and saw Elliott's chair being levitated, while E.T. was levitating his "phone" equipment up the staircase with Gertie.[5]

Production

After his parents' divorce in 1960, Spielberg filled the void with an imaginary alien companion. Spielberg said, "[E.T. was] a friend who could be the brother I never had and a father that I didn't feel I had anymore."[8] While filming Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg was bored, and memories of his childhood creation resurfaced during this analagous of loneliness.[9] He told screenwriter Melissa Mathison about a project he had planned with John Sayles called Night Skies, about malevolent aliens who terrorize a family. Spielberg and Mathison developed a subplot from the failed project focusing on Buddy, the only friendly alien, and his friendship with an autistic child. Buddy's abandonment on Earth in the script's final scene inspired the E.T. concept.[9] Mathison wrote a first draft titled E.T. and Me[9] in eight weeks, which Spielberg considered perfect.[5] Columbia Pictures, which had been producing Night Skies, met Spielberg to discuss the script. The studio passed on it, calling it "a wimpy Walt Disney movie", so Spielberg approached the more receptive Sid Sheinberg, president of MCA.[10]

Carlo Rambaldi, who designed the aliens for Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was hired to design the animatronics of E.T. Rambaldi's own painting Women of Delta led him to give the creature a unique, extendable neck.[5] The creature's face was inspired by the faces of Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein, and Ernest Hemingway.[11] Producer Kathleen Kennedy visited the Jules Stein Eye Institute to study real and glass eyeballs. She hired people from the Institute to create E.T.'s eyes, which she felt were particularly important in engaging the audience.[4] Four E.T. heads were created for filming, one as the main animatronics and the others for facial expressions, as well as a costume.[11] Tamara De Treaux, another dwarf and a boy born without legs took turns wearing the costume, depending on what scene was being filmed.[5] Caprice Roth, a professional mime, filled prosthetics to play E.T.'s hands.[4] The finished creature was created in three months, at the cost of $1.5 million.[12] Spielberg declared it, "something that only a mother could love."[5] Mars, Incorporated found E.T. so ugly that they refused to have M&Ms used in the film, believing E.T. would frighten children. This allowed Hershey's the opportunity to market Reese's Pieces.[13]

E.T. began shooting in September 1981.[14] To keep production a secret, the project was filmed under the title A Boy's Life, as Spielberg did not want anyone to know the plot and plagiarize it. The actors had to read the script behind closed doors, and anyone on set had to wear ID cards.[4] The film was shot on location, over 61 days, at Northridge, Los Angeles, California, a redwood forest near Crescent City, a high school, and at Laird International Studios in Culver City.[9] Spielberg shot the film in roughly chronological order to get convincing emotional performances from his cast. In the scene where Michael first encounters the alien, the creature's appearance caused MacNaughton to jump back and knock down the shelves behind him. The chronological shoot gave the young actors an emotional experience as they bonded with the character of E.T., making the hospital sequences more moving.[7] Spielberg ensured the puppeteers kept away from the set, to maintain the illusion of a real alien. For the first time in his career, he did not storyboard most of the film, in order to allow spontaneity in the performances.[14] Stylistically, the film was shot so adults, bar Dee Wallace, could rarely be seen from the waist up, as a tribute to the cartoons of Tex Avery.[5]

Longtime Spielberg collaborator John Williams composed the score for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Williams described his challenge on this project on creating a score that would create sympathy for an odd-looking creature like E.T. As with their previous collaborations, Spielberg liked every theme Williams composed, and had it included. Spielberg loved the music for the final chase so much that he edited the sequence to suit it.[15]

Themes

Many aspects of the film reflect Steven Spielberg's childhood: Mary reads Peter Pan, one of Spielberg's favorite bedtime stories, to Gertie;[16] Elliott feigns illness by holding his thermometer to a lightbulb while covering his face with a heating pad, a trick frequently employed by the young Spielberg.[17] The basic concept of the story derived from the loneliness Spielberg experienced after his father separated from his mother. At the film's heart is the theme of growing up. Michael picking on Elliott reflects how Spielberg teased his younger sisters,[5] while Michael's evolution from tormentor to protector reflects how Spielberg had to take care of his sisters after their father left.[7] Drew Barrymore described the alien as being like a guardian angel who came to teach the children about the virtues of love and kindness.[7]

A scene which Spielberg admitted triggered a lot of speculation as to whether his film was intentionally a religious parable.[18]

Many viewers found religious parallels to the life of Jesus Christ. English professor Al Millar published the pamphlet E.T.—You're More Than A Movie Star, comparing E.T.'s glowing heart to some imagery of Christ and associating his ability to heal, his persecution, and his eventual death and resurrection before ascending into the heavens to events in the Gospels.[9] Stanley Kauffman dubbed the film "The Gospel According to St. Steven."[19] Universal Studios appealed directly to the Christian market, with a poster reminiscent of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam and a logo reading "Peace." In contrast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart denounced E.T. as "a beast from Hell", and accused Spielberg of being "an agent of Satan."[20] Spielberg stated that he did not intend the film to be a religious parable, joking, "If I ever went to my mother and said, 'Mom, I've made this movie that's a Christian parable,' what do you think she'd say? She has a kosher restaurant on Pico and Doheny in Los Angeles."[18]

Producer Kathleen Kennedy noted that an important theme of E.T. is tolerance, which would be central to future Spielberg films such as Schindler's List and Munich.[5] Peter Coyote added that part of the film's popularity lay in its essential tale: someone welcomes a stranger and protects him in a largely malevolent world.[7]

Reception

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was previewed in Houston, Texas, where it received high marks from viewers.[9] The film premiered at the closing gala of the May 1982 Cannes Film Festival,[21] before being released in the United States on June 11, 1982. It opened at number one with a gross of $11 million. It stayed at number one for six successive weeks, then fluctuated between the top and second positions until January. By the end of its theatrical run on June 3, 1983, it had grossed $352 million domestically.[22] Spielberg was earning $500,000 a day in his share of the profits,[23][24] spending his money on several new homes[9] and a "Rosebud" sledge prop from Citizen Kane.[25] The Hershey Company's profits rose 65%, due to the film's prominent use of Reese's Pieces.[13] The film was rereleased on July 19, 1985,[26] and grossed $40 million domestically.[27] It was first released on VHS and laserdisc on October 27, 1988; the original videocassettes were colored green to combat piracy.[6]

Critics have acclaimed E.T. as a classic. Roger Ebert wrote, "This is not simply a good movie. It is one of those movies that brush away our cautions and win our hearts."[21] Michael Sragow of Rolling Stone called Spielberg "a space Jean Renoir.... [F]or the first time, [he] has put his breathtaking technical skills at the service of his deepest feelings."[28] Leonard Maltin called it the best film of the year.[29] George F. Will was one of the few to pan the film, feeling it spread subversive notions about childhood and science.[30]

There were allegations that the film was plagiarized from a 1967 script, "The Alien," by celebrated Bengali director Satyajit Ray. Ray stated, "E.T. would not have been possible without my script of 'The Alien' being available throughout the United States in mimeographed copies." Spielberg denied this claim, stating, "I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood."[31]

Overall, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial holds a 99% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 94% rating of "universal acclaim" on Metacritic. Critics weren't the only ones impressed: President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan were moved after viewing the film at the White House on June 27, 1982.[24] Princess Diana was in tears after watching the film.[5] On September 17, 1982, the film was screened at the United Nations, and Spielberg received the U.N. Peace Medal.[32]

The film was nominated for nine Oscars at the 55th Academy Awards, winning four: Best Original Music Score, Sound, Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Film Editing. Gandhi won the Best Picture Oscar, but its director, Richard Attenborough, declared, "I was certain that not only would E.T. win, but that it should win. It was inventive, powerful, [and] wonderful. I make more mundane movies."[33] At the Golden Globes, the film won Best Picture in the Drama category and was nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best New Male Star for Henry Thomas. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awarded the film Best Picture, Best Director and a "New Generation Award" for Melissa Mathison.[34] Composer John Williams won a Grammy, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for the score. The film won Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Writing, Best Special Effects, Best Music and Best Poster Art, while Henry Thomas, Robert McNaughton and Drew Barrymore won Young Artist Awards. E.T. was also honored abroad; the film won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Blue Ribbon in Japan, Cinema Writers Circle Awards in Spain, César Awards in France and David di Donatello in Italy.[35]

In American Film Institute polls, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has been voted the twenty-fifth greatest film of all time,[36] the forty-fourth most thrilling,[37] the sixth most uplifting,[38] as well as having the fourteenth greatest music score.[39] The quote "E.T. phone home" was listed fifteenth on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes list,[40] and forty-eighth on Premiere's top movie quote list.[41] E.T. has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.[42] In 2005, the film topped a Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest family films,[43] and was also listed by Time as one of the 100 best films ever made.[44] In 2003, Entertainment Weekly called the film the eighth most "tear-jerking";[45] in 2007, in a survey of both films and television series, the magazine declared E.T. the seventh greatest work of science-fiction media in the past 25 years.[46]

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An E.T. related comicovershadowing the iPhone's release, featured in the The Des Moines Register on Sunday, July 1, 2007

In July 1982, during the film's first theatrical run, Spielberg and Mathison wrote a treatment for a sequel to be titled "E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears." It would have seen Elliott and his friends kidnapped by evil aliens, and follow their attempts to contact E.T. for help. Spielberg decided against it, feeling it "would do nothing but rob the original of its virginity."[26]

In 1998, E.T. was licensed to appear in television public service announcements produced by Progressive Insurance. The announcements featured E.T.'s voice reminding drivers to "buckle up" their safety belts. Traffic signs depicting a stylized portrait of E.T. wearing a safety belt were installed on selected roads around the United States.[47] The following year, British Telecommunications launched the "Stay in Touch" campaign, with E.T. as the star of various advertisements.[48]

20th anniversary edition

The 20th Anniversary version of the film replaces the guns, used by the police, with walkie-talkies

An extended version of the film was released on March 22, 2002, that included altered special effects. Certain shots of E.T. had bothered Spielberg since 1982, as he did not have enough time to make the animatronics fully work. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was used to modify several shots, including ones of E.T. running in the opening sequence. Spielberg also used CGI to add elements to the spaceship. Scenes shot for but not part of the original version were included for the first time: E.T. taking a bath, and Gertie telling Mary that Elliott went to the forest. Spielberg did not add Harrison Ford's scene, feeling that would reshape the film too drastically. Having become a father, Spielberg was more sensitive about the scene where gun-wielding policemen threaten Elliott and his escaping friends. He replaced the guns digitally with walkie-talkies.[5]

At the premiere, John Williams conducted a live performance of the score while the film played.[49] This third release grossed $35 million domestically, and brought the film's total worldwide gross to $792 million since 1982.[27] The 20th anniversary edition was released on a 2-disc DVD on December 9, 2002, and was also packaged in a collector's edition with the original version.[50] The changes to the film, in particular the switch from guns to walkie-talkies, were criticized as politically correct. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wondered, "Remember those guns the feds carried? Thanks to the miracle of digital, they're now brandishing walkie-talkies.... Is this what two decades have done to free speech?"[51] Chris Hewitt of Empire wrote, "[T]he changes are surprisingly low-key...while ILM's CGI E.T. is used sparingly as a complement to Carlo Rambaldi's extraordinary puppet."[52]

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