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Cocoon is a 1985 American science fiction comedy drama film directed by Ron Howard and written by Tom Benedek from a story by David Saperstein. The film stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison, and follows a group of elderly people rejuvenated by aliens.
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To say that Hollywood is obsessed with youth is an understatement. Consequently, old age is a subject that is something of taboo in American dream factory. This and senior citizens being the least likely part of general demographics to visit cinemas made films dealing with that subject, at least those intended for mainstream distribution, quite rare. One of such rarities and, arguably, one of the most successful in…More
The year was 1985 and as I am sure you can imagine, special effects were kind of in their infancy. Computers were not really used for anything and ATM machines didn't exist, let alone the internet. One could say that our standards of realism regarding fantasy and sci-fi movies was pretty low at the time, but Cocoon went above and beyond anyone's expectations and produced an amazing product in the end. The story begi…More
