*Batteries Not Included
by Matthew Robbins
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Actor: Elizabeth Pe?a, Frank McRae, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Michael CarmineDirector: Matthew Robbins
Brand: TANDY/CRONYN
Writer: Matthew Robbins
Producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Gerald R. Molen
Writer: Brad Bird
Writer: Brent Maddock
Writer: Mick Garris
Writer: S.S. Wilson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of *Batteries Not Included
Movie Review: Yes, One for the Family..Christmas Viewing, Perhaps
Summary: 4 Stars
I can see why critics would be critical and the public would love it; it is a traditional good fairy helps out the needy tale. Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, one of our foremost stage couples, scored again with this now 20 + year old story. Both have done deadly serious work, together and apart, but, like Helen Hayes, in her old age, they were happy to play elderly people in order to work. Happily, that made most of us happy, too.
So, on its 22nd birthday, I can assure those looking for family fare, that this will still hit the spot with all.
Summary of *Batteries Not Included
Brave, elderly holdouts to an unscrupulous real estate developer find help in the tiny, lost visitors from outer space who glide through their windows and into their lives.No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: TANDY/CRONYN
Title: BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED
Street Release Date: 05/23/2006
Genre: FAMILY
Quite possibly the nadir of Steven Spielberg's career as a producer, this piece of sentimental junk from 1987 concerns five little spacecraft which arrive on Earth just in time to help out some New Yorkers getting kicked out of a tenement. The script's goo just sticks to the viewer, and the cast looks silly by trying not to be silly. You get the feeling that Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment was pretty much throwing stuff at the wall to see what would hang there, and they came up with this ridiculous thing. --Tom Keogh
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