Summary
n the summer of 1982, an Earthbound alien phoned home and audiences wept with joy, cementing Steven Spielberg's reputation as the greatest filmmaker of his generation. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial was a cultural phenomenon. Almost 30 years later, director JJ Abrams pays homage with Super 8, a rollicking adventure with echoes of The Goonies that depicts the rampage of an alien creature in rural 1970s America from the perspective of six children whose worlds have just been rocked by Star Wars and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
In the sleepy industrial town of Lillian, Ohio, teenager Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) is struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother and the strain on his father, Deputy Sheriff Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler).See the full content of this document
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The youngster invests his time in making a low-budget...
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