Location: Tipton City Park700 Park RoadTipton, IA 52772 (map)
Contact: Adam Spangler (aspangler@tiptoniowa.org)
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Please join us for ET the Extra Terrestrial presented by J&L Pipelines Services on Friday, August 8! Pre-show festivities begin at 6:00 PM and will include children's games, geo-caching and performances by local talent. Nicole Rock's School of Dance will perform at 7:00 PM and concessions will be available including popcorn for the movies. The show will begin at sundown and movie-goers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, family and friends and enjoy a movie under the stars! Movies in the Park is free to the public and children must be accompanied by an adult. All events are weather permitting.
ET the Extra Terrestrial Synopsis: Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups. Henry Thomas plays Elliott, a young boy living with his single mother (Dee Wallace), his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore). Elliott often seems lonely and out of sorts, lost in his own world. One day, while looking for something in the back yard, he senses something mysterious in the woods watching him. And he's right: an alien spacecraft on a scientific mission mistakenly left behind an aging botanist who isn't sure how to get home. Eventually Elliott puts his fears aside and makes contact with the "little squashy guy," perhaps the least threatening alien invader ever to hit a movie screen. As Elliott tries to keep the alien under wraps and help him figure out a way to get home, he discovers that the creature can communicate with him telepathically. Soon they begin to learn from each other, and Elliott becomes braver and less threatened by life. E.T. rigs up a communication device from junk he finds around the house, but no one knows if he'll be rescued before a group of government scientists gets hold of him. In 2002, Steven Spielberg re-released E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in a revised edition, with several deleted scenes restored and digitally refurbished special effects. Author: Mark Deming