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Movie: *batteries not included (1987)

• Director: Matthew Robbins
• Release Date: 18 December 1987 (USA)
• Writers: Mick Garris (story) Brad Bird (screenplay) …  
• Run Time: 106 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Family , Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Comedy  

Tagline: Five ordinary people needed a miracle. Then one night, Faye Riley left the window open.

Trivia: The building that housed Hume Cronyn’s lunch counter was a unique old building that was the only one on the block. Twenty-five years earlier it was used for the Judy Holliday musical Bells Are Ringing (1960) with the block in the same condition.
 

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When the fire starts, we see it spread down into the room with all the balloons. However you can clearly see that the fire is burning on ropes, which are being dangled down to make it seem as though the fire’s spreading.
 

“A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to ‘persuade’ them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers. Written by Rob Hartill”