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Summary: Good Summer Movie From the Eighties
Review: This is one of my favorite films from Director Ron Howard. It's a highly original sci-fi story that is more character and story driven that is not heavily reliant on CGI, unlike a lot of what passes today for summer entermainment. The story involves a group of benevolent aliens who return to Earth near the Florida coast to retrieve some comrades that were left behind on a prior mission from the bottom of the ocean. They store their lifepods in a swimming pool that some local retirees use and to the surprise of the seniors the pool contains a rejuvenating lifeforce. The cast, particularly the older actors, are uniformly excellent. One minor qualm is the finale of the film is somewhat derivative of Spielberg; the aliens mothership even looks like the one in "Close Encounters". I had not seen this film since it's initial release and it holds up remarkably well.
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Summary: A moving, funny, and original sci-fi/fantasy/drama.
Review: This is one of the few movies I've seen that has really made me cry. Director Ron Howard scores it big with this wonderful movie, and the plot is verrrrry original; three old men who live at a retirement center sneak over to a close-by deserted house every day to take a swim in the swimming pool. But a group of aliens disguised as humans come down to earth to save some of their comrades that they left there thousands of years ago, who are now sealed in large rock-like cocoons beneath the ocean, and take them home. And when they put the cocoons in the swimming pool to keep them alive and the old men go for a swim, they come out feeling like a million bucks! This would be a perfect family film if it wasn't so sexual and vulgar at times (hence the PG-13 rating). But for nine years and up, this is a sure treat. Don Ameche does a wonderful job as one of the old men, and Steve Guttenberg is downright funny as the guy who owns the boat the aliens use, and has a love affair with one of the aliens, as well. It has good lessons on friendship and love, and is a tear-jerker at times. A VERY GOOD movie!
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Summary: A great family movie to enjoy together
Review: This movie has a lot of wonderful fun and heartwarming moments in it. You can watch this with all members of your family without worrying about inappropriate language or scenes. The story is so compelling that you'll want to watch this video over and over. Enjoy!
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Summary: That's what we call dancing!
Review: What a wonderful movie. This movie Cocoon takes place in a nursing home in a coastal town. The inhabitants of the nursing home, Don Amache, Maureen Stapleton, Gwen Verdon, and I can't remember any of the others escape the nursing home and find an indoor pool that didn't belong to them. They played like children in the pool, until the pool manager told them they had no right to be there. At that point they had found space cocoons with aliens inside. Those cocoons were originally placed in the ocean, but had been placed in the pool. In the end the residents
moved with the aliens to their planet so they could live forever.The cast in this movie was wonderful, especially Gwen Verdon who played Bess McCarthy, her best role since DAMN YANKEES. You are sure to love her. She has red hair, buck teeth, her voice is like a quiet whisper. I liked the part at the beginning when she was leading the residents in a dance singing. "And swing em to the left, and swing 'em to the right. Then you do the twist with all your might. Shake it to the front and shake it to the back. That's what we call dancing!" This is a must have for anyone who likes action movies. Enjoy
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Summary: Every "old folk" should see this...
Review: When I first saw this film on video, I decided to rent a video player and visit my elderly parents...and they never had such a good time.My folks are gone now, and my stubborn dad, who hated practically everything, laughed is butt off. He hated movies, in general, but his reaction to "Cocoon" was gratifyting to me. I could analyze many aspects of the film, but there's little to say, other than the fact that the actors were in touch with their material and ran with it. Ron Howard made a more important film than he may know. To me, anyway... Every old folk should see this film.
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