A GOOD ALIEN INVADES OUR HEARTS

BY WILL PFEIFER

Boy meets alien. Boy loses alien. Boy helps alien go home. That’s the plot of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and for more than a decade, it was the biggest movie in the world. Inspired by the divorce of Steven Spielberg’s parents when he was a kid, E.T. was a global phenomenon in 1982, boosting the popularity of Reese’s Pieces, which the alien (Matthew De Meritt and others) loved to eat, and earning a best picture Oscar nomination. E.T. hit theaters during a summer full of sci-fi films, including Blade Runner, The Thing, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Tron. But the little alien beat them all, earning more than $359 million. It has since earned more than $792 million. It was the highest-grossing film of all time until Spielberg’s own Jurassic…

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