He is played by Henry Thomas in what has to be the best little boy performance I've ever seen in an American film. The movie's hero is one particular little boy named Elliott. of the title, is left behind on Earth-abandoned to a horrendous world of dogs, raccoons, automobile exhausts and curious little boys. They close in on the spaceship, and it is forced to take off and abandon one of its crew members. Humans arrive-authorities with flashlights and big stomping boots. In this forest one night, a spaceship lands, and queer-looking little creatures hobble out of it and go snuffling through the night, looking for plant specimens, I guess. The split-level houses march up and down the curved drives, carved out of hills that turn into forest a few blocks beyond the backyard. The movie takes place in and around a big American suburban development. But I can suggest some of the film's wonders.
"E.T." is a movie of surprises, and I will not spoil any of them for you. The Great Movies Read Ebert's essay on what makes "E.T." one of the great movies.
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