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Release Date: 1987

Cast: Michael Carmine, John DiSanti, Tom Aldredge, Wendy Schaal, Elizabeth Peña, Hume Cronyn, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jessica Tandy, Macintyre Dixon, Michael Greene, Doris Belack, Frank McRae ...MORE

Cast: Michael Carmine, John DiSanti, Tom Aldredge, Wendy Schaal, Elizabeth Peña, Hume Cronyn, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jessica Tandy, Macintyre Dixon, Michael Greene, Doris Belack, Frank McRae, Jane Hoffman, Luis Guzmán, John Pankow ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Comedy, Science Fiction, Comedy-Drama, Fantasy, Family

*batteries not included is a 1987 family-science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development. The story was originally intended to be featured in the TV series Amazing Stories, but Steven Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release. Many of the film's foreign releases (including at least Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Latin American Spanish) used the title Miracle on 8th Street in reference to the filming location. The film is... MORE

*batteries not included is a 1987 family-science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development. The story was originally intended to be featured in the TV series Amazing Stories, but Steven Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release. Many of the film's foreign releases (including at least Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Latin American Spanish) used the title Miracle on 8th Street in reference to the filming location. The film is set in contemporary New York City. Frank and Faye Riley (respectively Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), an elderly couple who run an apartment building and café in the run-down East Village neighborhood, come under threat by a nearby property development. The development manager, Mr. Lacey, sends a hoodlum named Carlos and his gang to bribe the couple and their tenants to move out. They punch through artist Mason Baylor's (Dennis Boutsikaris) door, intimidate a pregnant women (Elizabeth Peña) and break retired boxer Harry Knoble's (Frank McRae) jar of tiles. When Frank Riley refuses to move, Carlos LESS