E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial: Extended Edition [2002]

Director:	Steven Spielberg
Writer:	Melissa Mathison
Composer:	John Williams

Length:	121 minutes (2 hours 1 minute)
MPAA Rating:	PG
Suggested Event Use:	Halloween
Sorting Category:	SciFi

IMDB Rating:	7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes Rating:	98%
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Classifications:

Drama
Sci-Fi
Kids
Family
Action
Puppets
Suspense / Horror

Available Formats:

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HD DVD	Blu-ray
3D Blu-ray	Digital

Collection:	E.T. The Extra Terrestrial: Collector's Edition
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Alternates	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Synopsis: A young boy finds and bonds with a visitor from another planet.

Reaction: Sadly, the director's cut makes some good additions (like a more realistic run for E.T.) but also feels it important to re-insert scenes that were cut from the original version. This isn't always bad, but the scenes don't really add much to the story.

Personal Rating: 8/10

Select Cast and Crew

Steven Spielberg	=>	Director

Melissa Mathison	=>	Writer
John Williams	=>	Composer

C. Thomas Howell	=>	Tyler (as Tom Howell)

Dee Wallace	=>	Mary

Drew Barrymore	=>	Gertie

Erika Eleniak	=>	Pretty Young Girl

Henry Thomas	=>	Elliott

K.C. Martel	=>	Greg
Pat Welsh	=>	E.T. ^(voice) ^(uncredited)
Peter Coyote	=>	Keys

Richard Swingler	=>	Science Teacher
Robert MacNaughton	=>	Michael (as Robert Macnaughton)

Sean Frye	=>	Steve

Random Trivia For This Title:

Steven Spielberg's original concept was for a much darker movie in which a family was terrorized in their house by aliens. When Spielberg decided to go with a more benevolent alien, the family-in-jeopardy concept was recycled as Poltergeist.
With the exception of Elliot's mom, no adults' faces are shown until the last half of the film.
One of the movie clips E.T. watches on TV is from This Island Earth.
Steven Spielberg shot the film in chronological order to invoke a real response from the actors (mainly the children) when E.T. departed at the end. All emotional responses from that last scene are real.
Steven Spielberg shot most of the film from the eye-level of a child to further connect with Elliot and E.T.
At the auditions, Henry Thomas thought about the day his dog died to express sadness. Director Steven Spielberg cried, and hired him on the spot.
ET's communicator actually worked, and was constructed by ^[?] Henry Feinberg, an expert in science and technology interpretation for the public.