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Cocoon (1985)

117 mins

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genre(s):

COMEDY

DRAMA

SCIENCE FICTION

A group of aliens return to earth to take back some cocoons of their people they left behind from an earlier trip. They kept the recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of old people from an elderly home nearby, who have been secretly using the pool and discovering the unusual power of these cocoons.

name	character
Don Ameche	Arthur Selwyn
Wilford Brimley	Benjamin Luckett
Hume Cronyn	Joseph Finley
Brian Dennehy	Walter
Jack Gilford	Bernie Lefkowitz
Steve Guttenberg	Jack Bonner
Linda Harrison	Susan
Clint Howard	John Dexter
Maureen Stapleton	Mary Luckett
Jessica Tandy	Alma Finley
Tahnee Welch	Kitty

name
Tom Benedek	screenplay
David Brown	producer
James Horner	composer
Ron Howard	director
David Saperstein	writer (original)
Lili Fini Zanuck	producer
Richard D. Zanuck	producer

award	category	name	year
Academy Award	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Don Ameche	1985

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