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Outdoor Movie: ET the Extraterrestrial

Wed, Aug 17 2016


Outdoor Film Series

Runtime TBA

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La Peg at FringeArtsMap


Part of the Louis Bluver Outdoor Movie Series.

Films, food, and drink al fresco at our waterfront Haas Biergarten every Wednesday night. Screenings are free!  Drinks and food are available for purchase from La Peg.

To increase accessibility for our patrons, English subtitles will be on screen when possible.

Depending on how the elections go, you might want to brush up on some survival tips. The first of a two-week pairing of alien invasion cult classics. (August 24: Attack the Block)

Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups. Henry Thomas plays Elliott, a young boy living with his single mother (Dee Wallace), his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore). Elliott often seems lonely and out of sorts, lost in his own world. One day, while looking for something in the back yard, he senses something mysterious in the woods watching him. And he’s right: an alien spacecraft on a scientific mission mistakenly left behind an aging botanist who isn’t sure how to get home. Eventually Elliott puts his fears aside and makes contact with the “little squashy guy,” perhaps the least threatening alien invader ever to hit a movie screen. As Elliott tries to keep the alien under wraps and help him figure out a way to get home, he discovers that the creature can communicate with him telepathically. Soon they begin to learn from each other, and Elliott becomes braver and less threatened by life. E.T. rigs up a communication device from junk he finds around the house, but no one knows if he’ll be rescued before a group of government scientists gets hold of him.

Rated PG

115 min

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