Taking place in California near the California/Nevada border in a quaint town, nobody would expect anything out of the ordinary to happen. One night, a space ship touches down in the forest away from prying eyes, or is it? Some forest rangers are out on patrol when they come across one of the aliens and accidentally frighten him. The alien then flees into the edge of the town, where Elliot is bringing in the pizza they ordered. The alien creates a lot of noise, so Elliot goes to investigate. He was startled by the sight of the alien and ran into the …show more content…
The next day he went out and made a trail from the forest to his house with Reese's Pieces. The alien follows the trail and Elliot is able to lead him into the house where he hides him in his closet. He decides to name the alien E.T. After a couple days of faking sick to stay home with E.T., Elliot decides to show E.T. to his brother, Michael. While doing so, Elliot's little sister, Gertie bursts in. Together they decide to keep his existence a secret and work to teach E.T. how to speak. When he learns, he tells them that he needs to "phone home". The boys, since Gertie is too young, help him to assemble pieces that he can use to build a device that can transmit a signal to his people. They get him out into the forest where they set it up and Elliot falls asleep. When he awakens, E.T. is nowhere to be seen. Elliot returns home to his frantic mother and sends Michael out to find them. When he leaves, Michael finds that there have been government agents watching them and they want E.T. He eventually loses them and gets E.T. home. The only problem is, E.T. is deathly ill-and so is Elliot. Mary, their mother, finds Elliot and E.T. in the bathroom and tries to take her kids