Batteries Not Included (1987)

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña

Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Carmine, Dennis Boutsikaris, Tom Aldredge, Jane Hoffman, John DiSanti, John Pankow, Macintyre Dixon, Michael Greene, Doris Belack, Wendy Schaal, Jose Santana, James LeGros, Luis Guzmán

Director: Matthew Robbins, John McPherson

Director: Matthew Robbins
Composer: James Horner
Director: John McPherson

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