E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)🔥4.5/5⭐ E.T. is actually a thriller about a suburban single mom holding her family together while her kids harbor an unregistered illegal alien who gets drunk on Coors, talks to flowers, and dresses like a grandma. Steven Spielberg disguised a chaotic fever dream as a beloved family classic and we all just went along with it. Let’s be real: E.T. looks like a wrinkled, soggy potato with a glowing index finger and the posture of an anxious thumb. How did this walking raisin manage to make an entire generation weep hysterically by just pointing at the sky and saying "home"? Spielberg had magic powers in the '80s. E.T. dying and turning white/crusty in the ditch traumatized 80s/90s kids way more than The Lion King ever did. Spielberg was lowkey running a psychological test on children under the guise of family entertainment. ⭐Synopsis: A lonely 10-year-old boy in California suburbia finds a lost, botanist alien, hides him using Reese's Pieces, and builds a makeshift transmitter to call his spaceship before the US government seizes him. A timeless masterpiece about friendship, grief, and childhood innocence.