E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

USA, 1982

Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Steven Spielberg

Producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

Writer: Melissa Mathison

Budget: $10.5M

Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Walace, Robert MacNaugton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote

Plot Summary:

A group of aliens visit earth and one of them is lost and left behind stranded on this planet. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, Elliot. Soon the two begin to communicate, and start a different kind of friendship in which E.T learns about life on earth and Elliot learns about some new values for the true meaning of friendship. E.T. wants to go home, but if Elliot helps him, he'll lose a friend...

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

USA, 2009

Genre: Adventure

Director: Spike Jonze

Producer: Tom Hanks, John B. Carls, Gary Goeztman, Maurice Sendak, Vincent Landay

Writer: Spike Jonze, David Egger (screenplay), Maurice Sendak (book)

Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener

Voices: Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker

Budget: $80M

Plot Summary:

An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.