E.T. The Extra Terrestrial: Collector's Edition [2002] (2 discs)

Director:	Steven Spielberg
Writer:	Melissa Mathison
Composer:	John Williams

Length:	236 minutes (3 hours 56 minutes)
MPAA Rating:	PG
Suggested Event Use:	Halloween
Sorting Category:	SciFi

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Synopsis: This is a two disc set with both cuts of the movie presented here.

Reaction: This release is good and it's nice to see a side-by-side comparison of the two versions of the movie. The director's cut adds some nice but unnecessary touches to a great movie.

Personal Rating: 9/10

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Steven Spielberg	=>	Director
Melissa Mathison	=>	Writer
John Williams	=>	Composer

This set contains the following titles:
Title	Year	Length (mins)	Rating (of 10)	MPAA Rating	IMDB (of 10.0)	Rotten Tomatoes (of 100%)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial: Extended Edition	2002	121	8	PG	7.8	98
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	1982	115	9	PG	7.8	98

Random Trivia For This Title:

At the auditions, Henry Thomas thought about the day his dog died to express sadness. Director Steven Spielberg cried, and hired him on the spot.
ET's communicator actually worked, and was constructed by ^[?] Henry Feinberg, an expert in science and technology interpretation for the public.
Steven Spielberg shot most of the film from the eye-level of a child to further connect with Elliot and E.T.
Steven Spielberg shot the film in chronological order to invoke a real response from the actors (mainly the children) when E.T. departed at the end. All emotional responses from that last scene are real.
One of the movie clips E.T. watches on TV is from This Island Earth.
With the exception of Elliot's mom, no adults' faces are shown until the last half of the film.
Steven Spielberg's original concept was for a much darker movie in which a family was terrorized in their house by aliens. When Spielberg decided to go with a more benevolent alien, the family-in-jeopardy concept was recycled as Poltergeist.