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Batteries Not Included
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
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Overview

Tenants of a slum building need all the help they can get when their evil landlord threatens to evict them and raze their building in a fit of 1980s-style greed. Unexpected help arrives in the form of small extraterrestrial robot-like creatures who come to town and cleverly join the battle. Real-life husband and wife team Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy lead the tenement dwellers in a Capra-meets-Spielberg touch. Directed by Matthew Robbins, co-writer of Steven Spielberg's first film, THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS and 1997's MIMIC. Co-writer Brad Bird went on to work on THE SIMPSONS. Produced by Steven Spielberg.

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Main Cast & Crew:
Joe Johnston - Director
Matthew Robbins - Director
Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Frank McRae
Michael Carmine
Doris Belack
Jose Santana
John de Santi
Dennis Boutsikaris
Tom Aldredge
Jane Hoffman

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Widescreen)
  • Run Time: 107
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 025192052026
  • Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
  • Rating: PG (MPAA)
  • Release Date: March 1999

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
"...A handsome film, impeccably designed....BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED is in the best Hollywood tradition of raising serious questions in a thoroughly entertaining way..." - 12/18/1987 Los Angeles Times, p.C1

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