ET The Extra-Terrestrial (2002)
UK THEATRICAL RELEASE: Mar 29th 2002 TOTAL FILM REVIEW
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Steven Spielberg was genuinely surprised when ET became the biggest-grossing movie ever. He’d intended it as a small, personal film and sprinkled it with autobiographical details – okay, so he’d never met a turd-like alien, but for Elliot’s (Henry Thomas) absent father, look at the director’s own upbringing. It seemed incredible that so many people shared his vision, his life, his fantasy.
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