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Summary: One the best films I've ever watched with my family
Review: My sister had this video and I have searched for a place to buy it for a long time! The formal reviews weren't very good, but what do they know. It's funny, touching, and very enjoyable to watch for both adults and children!
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Summary: A Masterpiece for Children and the Young at Heart
Review: Spielberg's movies are typically epic in proportion - in contrast to his other movies this special effects masterpiece is aimed at children and the young at heart perfectly targeting its audience with its almost perfect execution, its intimate scale and proportion. Folks this is a miniature and like most miniatures its a jewel. Faberge meets children's science fiction. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are delightful, playing themselves in the sunset of their life in love in a condemned tenement in New York. A modern updating of the fairy tale about the impoverished cobbler who is rescued by fairies (miniature flying saucers) - charming, touching, lovely.
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Summary: Must be Spielberg haters here?
Review: There are so many good movies, and so many bad movies, and reviews are certain to sway both ways. This movie is one that should not reflect bad ratings, or reviews. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are classics, which adds to the movie already. But the workings of Spielberg are what make it good. So if reviews are what is going to make you buy this, or not buy this movie, ignore the bad reviews. I am sure if you go to all the other Spielberg movies you will find the same people downing his work. Enjoy the show....
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Summary: A sentimental little beauty from Spielberg
Review: This 1987 little sentimental ditty was utterly irresistible to the public, even as critics panned it as too schmaltzy. It concerns a squadron of little UFOs who arrive on the room of a NY apartment building, one which is about to be razed as soon as the owners can manage to evict the quirky bunch of tenants. The tenants include Hume Cronin and Jessica Tandy (always and forever a winning pair) as well as a guy who plays a mentally (or emotionally - or maybe both) disabled man who speaks only in set phrases from commercials or TV jingles or product tags, such as that of the title: Batteries Not Included. As the tenants band together to save the lives of the little aliens, including a spine-tingling scene in which one gives birth, the aliens come to the rescue of the folks in danger of eviction - and the tenants, previously a disparate bunch, come together to form a community.
Heartwarming. Great family entertainment
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Summary: Light, heart warming story of displaced seniors.
Review: This is a a heart warming story of older people displaced by the demolition of their tenement building, with some little aliens suddenly arriving on earth to help these people repair the damage done to their tenement home and to help rebuild their lives. Very nice, homey story.
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Summary: No Extras.
Review: This is a classic from 1987. I remember watching this movie when I was younger and loveing it. Steven Spielberg endorses this film directed by Matthew Robbins. I was happy to see it released in widescreen but not happy with the extras. This film deserves a commentary track and has virually no extras at all. It contains:Cast & Filmmakers' Bio
Film Highlights
Theatrical Trailer It is 107 minutes in length and has English, Spanish and French subtitles. The films most noteworthy star is academy award winner, Jessica Tandy. It is a good movie for children with the exception of a few foul words. It's pretty minor and does not detract from the story.
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Summary: No Extras.
Review: This is a classic from 1987. I remember watching this movie when I was younger and loveing it. Steven Spielberg endorses this film directed by Matthew Robbins. I was happy to see it released in widescreen but not happy with the extras. This film deserves a commentary track and has virually no extras at all. It contains: Cast & Filmmakers' Bio
Film Highlights
Theatrical Trailer It is 107 minutes in length and has English, Spanish and French subtitles. The films most noteworthy star is academy award winner, Jessica Tandy. It is a good movie for children with the exception of a few foul words. It's pretty minor and does not detract from the story.
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Summary: A WONDERFUL Movie!
Review: This is a movie about broken people. But it is so much more than that! In this broken-down row house in New York City, a number of disfunctional people are brought together by a family group of aliens, to face their common enemy, a greedy real estate developer. Particularly noteworth are Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, as an elderly couple faced with her growing dementia. The humans face a number of crises, and help out the aliens--who help in their turn. This is a warm hearted film, a funny film, a suspenseful film. Above all, this is a film you will not want to miss, not possibly!
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Summary: My Favorite Movie Ever
Review: This is a wonderful movie. The models used for the aliens are AMAZING, and look much more realistic than shotty computer animation that is used today. I also get more out of the movie everytime I see it. It works on multiple levels, and has a strong underlying theological messages. Many of the more obscure details require you watch the movie more than once. It is an excellent movie and definitely worth watching.
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Summary: It was GREAT!
Review: This is an incredible movie. It was cute, and entertaining. It had something for everyone. It had a great plot line, and it was completely original. I really recomend it as a family movie.
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