@RUTGERS.ARPA:mar@mit-borax (02/26/85)
From: mar@mit-borax (Mark A. Rosenstein) From the March '85 issue of Box Office: Twentieth Century Fox has pushed up the release of it's science-fantasy adventure, "Cocoon" from the original Christmas '85 date to a summer release. It is directed by Ron Howard (Splash), produced by Richard Zanuck, starring Maureen Stapleton, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, and Steve Guttenberg. With effects by ILM. Cocoon is the story of what happens when a group of aliens return to Earth to retrieve their friends, who had been left behind in cocoons a thousand years ago when the aliens' city had sunk into the ocean. When they arrive, the aliens rent a Florida estate and fill its swimming pool with a liquid that keeps the cocoons alive. Next door to the estate there's a retirement community. And when several of the residents sneak over to take a dip in the pool, they find themselves rejuvenated and feeling like 20-year-olds. -Mark Rosenstein mar@mit-borax.arpa "We're not in the eigth dimension, we're over New Jersy!"
Wahl.ES@Xerox.ARPA (07/10/85)
From: Wahl.ES@Xerox.ARPA Cocoon -- a Brief Review Imagine a cross between Close Encounters (I swear they used CE3K's puppets for the ETs, although with more interior lighting -- why do aliens always glow, anyway?) and On Golden Pond, and you have this movie. It's a terrific movie if you like to watch old people: watch old people swim, watch old people screw, watch old people break dance. There was not much else in this movie. And the ending was pure cop out. --Lisa
mclean@nrl-css (07/16/85)
From: John McLean <mclean@nrl-css>
I finally got around to seeing Coocoon. I am a bit surprised that with all
I have read about the movie, nobody has mentioned what, for me, made it above
average. I am referring to the obvious Christian undertones of trespasses,
forgiving of those trespasses, baptism, eternal life in the heavens, and
perhaps even the death of a savior.
John