Batteries Not Included (1987)

Original Title :	*batteries not included
Director :	Matthew Robbins
Writer :	Mick Garris Brad Bird Matthew Robbins Brent Maddock S.S. Wilson
Genre :	Family
	Fantasy
Country :	USA
Language :	English
Producer :	Kathleen Kennedy , Frank Marshall , Gerald R. Molen , Ronald L. Schwary , Steven Spielberg
Music :	James Horner
Photography :	John McPherson
IMDB ID :	0092494
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Batteries Not Included (1987) - Matthew Robbins

Starring

Hume Cronyn		Frank Riley, Owner Riley's Cafe
Jessica Tandy		Faye Riley
Frank McRae		Harry Noble
Elizabeth Peña		Marisa Esteval
Michael Carmine		Carlos
Dennis Boutsikaris		Mason Baylor
Tom Aldredge		Sid Hogenson
Tom Aldredge		Sid Hogenson

Plot

A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to 'persuade' them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.

Comments

Movie: C+DVD: B * batteries not included C+/B 2.11.00 1.85:1/5.1 First Viewing Anamorphic Widescreen It's a cross between Cocoon and E.T. but doesn't live up to either.The story is too cute at times, yet no where does a single young child appear in the film.The DVD looks and sounds fine, but the only extras are production notes.