E.T.

Description:
The film opens in Crescent City , California , with a group of extraterrestrial botanists collecting vegetation samples. US government agents show up and the aliens flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to a suburban California home where a boy named Elliott ( Henry Thomas ) plays the servant role of his older brother Michael ( Robert MacNaughton ) and his friends ( KC Martel , Sean Frye and C Thomas Howell). When he goes to get the pizza, Elliott discovers the abandoned alien, who promptly flees. Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott leaves Reese's Pieces candy in the woods to lure him into his bedroom. Before he goes to bed, Elliott warns the alien by mimicking his movements.

The next morning, Elliott fakes illness to avoid school so he can play with the alien. That afternoon, Michael and his younger sister, Gertie ( Drew Barrymore ), meet the alien. His mother, Mary ( Dee Wallace ), hears noises and goes to see that she is passing. Michael, Gertie and the alien hide in the closet, while Elliott assures his mother that everything is fine. Michael and Gertie promise to keep the alien a secret from his mother. Deciding that they will keep the alien, the children begin to wonder about its origin. He responds by levitating balls representing his solar system from him, and further demonstrates his powers by reviving a dead plant.

The next day at school, Elliott begins to experience a psychic connection to the alien. Elliott behaves erratically due in part to the alien's intoxication from drinking beer . Elliott then releases the frogs in a dissection class . As the alien watches John Wayne kiss Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man , by the psychic link, Elliott is provoked into kissing a girl ( Erika Eleniak ) he likes in the same way.

The alien learns to speak English by repeating what Gertie says in response to what she is seeing on Sesame Street and, at Elliott's urging, nicknames himself E.T. (for extraterrestrial ). He enlists Elliott's help in building a device to call home , by using a Speak & Spell toy . Michael begins to notice that E.T.'s health is failing and that Elliott is referring to himself as us . on halloween, Michael and Elliott dress E.T. as a ghost so they can sneak out of the house. Elliott and E.T. ride their bikes through the woods, where E.T. successfully calls his home. But nevertheless, the next morning, Elliott wakes up to find that E.T. has disappeared, and returns home to his grieving family. Michael finds E.T. dying in the woods, and the alien takes Elliott's hand, who is also dying. Mary begins to freak out when she discovers her son's illness and the dying alien, formerly the government agents who had invaded the house.

The scientists create a medical facility in the house, quarantining Elliott and E.T. First E.T. is stable and Elliott dies, but then Elliott recovers and E.T. dies. The bond between E.T. and Elliott disappears when E.T. dies. Elliott is left alone with the motionless alien, when he notices a dead flower, the plant that E.T. had previously revived, come back to life. E.T. perks up and reveals that his people are coming back. Elliott and Michael steal a van that E.T. had been stored in and a chase ensues, with Elliott and E.T. joining up with Michael's friends in an attempt to evade the authorities on a bicycle. Suddenly facing a dead end, they escape with the use of telekinesis .from E.T. to get up into the air on the bike and flee into the woods. Standing near the spaceship, E.T.'s heart lights up as he prepares to return to his home. Mary, Gertie, and Keys ( Peter Coyote ), a Government agent, show up. E.T. says goodbye to Michael and Gertie, and before entering the spaceship, he says, "Elliott, I'll be right here," pointing his glowing finger at Elliott's forehead, then E.T. gets on the spaceship and returns to his planet.