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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in *batteries not included:

Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Frank McRae
Elizabeth Peña
Michael Carmine
Dennis Boutsikaris

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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.

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Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Kevin ThomasNot surprisingly, considering that it is a Spielberg production, Batteries Not Included is a handsome film, impeccably (and ingeniously) designed by Ted Haworth and enriched by a superb James Horner score that brings a melancholy tinge to its brassy big band sound. Batteries Not Included is in the best Hollywood tradition of raising serious questions in a thoroughly entertaining way.
Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger EbertCronyn and Tandy rescue the movie from looking altogether like a retread, and the saucers do their part, too. Designed by Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects wizards, the saucers swoop and vibrate and blink and purr and even have children, which they assemble out of old toasters and other househood appliances. "Batteries Not Included" is a sweet, cheerful and funny family entertainment.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumMatthew Robbins acquits himself honorably as cowriter and director of this gentle 1987 fantasy about miniature spaceships that land on a tenement in Manhattan's Lower East Side and save the tenants from imminent expulsion and disaster at the hands of greedy real estate developers.
The New York Times - 6/10 by Janet MaslinChildren may enjoy this, but their adult escorts will have a harder time...It's been well made and, especially in Miss Tandy's case, acted with a sense of fun. But the time for this brand of fantasy may have come and gone.
Miami Herald - 5/10 by Bill CosfordYou end up with this perky but pointless rehash of the cute alien format that became embedded in the late ‘80s.
Washington Post - 3/10 by Rita KempleyBatteries is a strange kids' movie, a queer mix of violence and otherworldly benevolence. It might have been a good idea, a story of the vanishing urban neighborhood and gentrification by tycoon. But half-pint aliens to the rescue? It's time E.T. went home.
Chicago Tribune - 3/10 by Johanna SteinmetzDepending on the speed of your gag reflex, "+batteries not included" is either a 21st Century "Lassie" or the worst piece of smarm to come along since "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus."
User Review - 10/10 by Hannah HSaw this for the first time when I was 6 years old. It's one of those films that sparked my love for media.
User Review - 10/10 by David AA childhood favourite. Just got in on dvd today from target for $5. Love it. =}
User Review - 10/10 by Ashley HI love this movie and i think that is really interesting, because is not a typical sci-fi movie where we have to get bored with a scientific and ununderstandable explanation of how the spaceships were made. It just shows a fantasy story about a poor group of inhabitants of an almost demolished building, that want to save their home from being destroyed only for build up an enterprise, but when they think that all is lost and they have to give up, sudden appears help for them, two small spaceships that will give them support for face the problems that they have. Probably many people think that the story is silly and ridiculous and that the spaceships were pathetic too, but i think that is an enjoyable movie, a kind of movie that we don't see anymore in these days, because extraterrestrials now are old-fashioned, but is a good souvenir from the latest 80's. The music is fantastic, i'm talking about the jazz at the begining, is really beautiful that song, it's calm and sweet. I really love this movie is one of my favorites.

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