E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was a moving exploration of an alien encounter that cleverly eschewed the epic scale of Close Encounters for the microcosm of its effect on a single California family. Henry Thomas gave a strong performance as the boy who discovers and befriends…

…the Third Kind (1977) and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the rollicking Indiana Jones series (1981, 1984, 1989, 2008, 2023), the dinosaur action movie Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel The Lost World (1997), the Holocaust biopic Schindler’s List (1993), the war drama Saving Private Ryan (1998), the

…Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Later that year Barrymore, at age seven, became the youngest-ever host of the television show Saturday Night Live. In 1984 she appeared in the thriller Firestarter, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel, and in Irreconcilable Differences, for which she earned a…

…the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) proved that science fiction had finally moved beyond its drive-in B-film status. In fact, U.S. box-office receipts for science fiction, fantasy, and horror films jumped from 5 percent in 1971 to nearly 50 percent by 1982; although the share fell somewhat…