It just looks good, plays good and most importantly, feels good. It is a movie that probably deserves more recognition than it got, though. It was actually just as I remembered it without any extra romantic flourish added to it from my memory.īatteries Not Included is sort of forgotten today and it wasn’t a big hit in its day, anyway. I was happy that I revisited this, so many years later, because I wasn’t disappointed, as I often times am with movies I once loved as a kid. ![]() But the 80s were a magical time for film. It is something that you don’t see very often anymore, at least not in major studio sci-fi releases. It’s kind of nice revisiting pictures like this and Cocoon, as they feature elderly actors as the main characters. The cast were all really good but the bulk of the picture rests on the shoulders of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (just a few years before her big Academy Award win for Driving Miss Daisy). The movie still looks stellar today and it held up really nicely. It’s interesting that it takes non-human lifeforms to bring the humans in the story together.įor 1987, the special effects are fantastic. Batteries Not Included is about not losing hope and it is also about family and friends and turning to those around you who are good people. The movie is really about miracles and how when you are pushed to your limit and all seems hopeless, sometimes things can happen to pick you back up. They even give birth to three baby alien ships in the film. The little spaceships are actually alien lifeforms that take junk and appliances and use them to repair and enhance themselves. Two tiny alien spaceships show up and start fixing everything. The thugs go around destroying the resident’s homes and property. ![]() The area is being torn down and the residents forced out by thugs hired by developers who intend to build modern massive skyscrapers. ![]() The movie tells the story of the residents of a rundown building in New York City. He would go on to write and direct the beloved animated films The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Also, this was Brad Bird’s first time writing for a theatrical release. Spielberg liked the story so much that he wanted to have it expanded into a feature film. ![]() The film was actually intended to be an episode of Steve Spielberg’s awesome television show Amazing Stories. So when I came across it on Netflix, I wanted to see how it played, thirty years later. It is one of those movies I loved as a kid but hadn’t really seen since. Once I saw it though, I was captivated and would try to catch it every time it was playing on television. At least, I wasn’t really aware of it until it popped up on HBO about a year later. “The quickest way to end a miracle is to ask it why it is… or what it wants.” – Frank Rileyīatteries Not Included sort of came and went in the theater. WilsonĬast: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Pena, Dennis Boutsikaris, Michael Carmine, Wendy SchaalĪmblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures, 107 Minutes Written by: Mick Garris, Brad Bird, Matthew Robbins, Brent Maddock, S.S. Also stylized as: *batteries not includedĪlso known as: Miracle On 8th Street (international)
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