Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is an American comedy-1985science fiction film directed by Ron Howard. The production won the Academy Awards for best visual effects and best actor (Don Ameche). Director Howard got awarded a Saturn Award and the Young Venice Award of the Venice Film festival 1985.

Cocoon in 1988 was followed by Cocoon: The Return, in which most of the original actors returned. ==Story[ Edit] == The Sammy Shores Retirement Community is a living community that retirement provides shelter, meals and daily guided activities. Next to it is a large, empty House with an indoor pool and a large estate surrounding it. Three old male residents, Art Selwyn (Don Ameche), Ben Luckett (Wilford Brimley) and Joe Finley (Hume Cronyn) regularly as a chance to see the House to sneak and use the pool.

The business of skipper Jack Bonner (Steve Guttenberg) are not best, but that is about to change when four people led by Walter (Brian Dennehy) joined him reports.They want him and his boat rent on a specific place 27 days in the sea to go diving. Art, Ben and Joe on the other hand, see the foursome arrive with sadness, because in addition to the boat is also rented the House with ' their ' swimming pool. They decide to secretly keep going swimming when the diving expedition on path. There are nevertheless a number of body large, stony objects in the water. While they are in the bath, they feel to their surprise all of a sudden be fitter and more vital with the second. If they come home at night, they surprise their wives with big erections. Baby drivers license is just decreased because his eyes had become too bad, but now that improve weather and Joe's newly discovered cancer is completely gone. Because all this must have to do with the pool, they are going to be the three swimming every day and from then on the energetic Centre of the residential community.

S. Bonner sees the surfaced ' stones ' only firmly packed and is wildly curious what this now could be right. The attractive diver Kitty (Tahnee Welch) trying to make that point to the huge, rare snail shells are they going to sell for a lot of money to a museum. That this is not true, notes Bonner when he secretly through the keyhole looks like Kitty herself on her room to undress. She takes not only her clothes off, but her whole human body turns out to be a disguise. Walter and his three helpers are aliens.Bonner would panic off, but realizes that he is in the middle of the sea. He is calm down by Walter explains to him that they have no harm within the meaning and what is going on.

The foursome comes from the planet Antarea. Their kind had a location on Earth10,000 years ago, but this turned out to be an unfortunate choice: their residenceAtlantis countersunk and the Antareanen fled with their ships in the area . They had only not enough space for everyone else so that they make some of their counterparts in cocoons in sea left behind that is to retrieve later. That the four do now. The pool in which they lay them, charged with healing energy, so they can recuperate to space travel to survive.

During one of their swimming the turns are Art, Ben and Joe caught by Walter. They go away quickly and bypass the bath a time but find that they are more tired strammer and again soon. Ben is worried that Joe's cancer also comes back and goes therefore with Walter talk. Who agrees that the three keep swimming. They should only come to the cocoons and they should not strictly keep secret what happens in the pool.This is leaking out. They invited their friend Bernie Lefkowitz (Jack Gilford) come to swim, but who finds the verjongingkrachten unnatural and yells this angered by the dining room, so everyone can hear that the swimming pool is a kind of fountain of youth is. Thereupon storm the residents of the residential community massively the pool. As a result, in no time the healing energy out of it. The inhabitants of different cocoons die because there is rough with their enclosures is handled. Walter has a huge problem because he can not take them too weak ilk are now... ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * Don Ameche: Arthur Selwyn
 * Wilford Brimley: Benjamin Luckett
 * Hume Cronyn: Joseph Finley
 * Brian Dennehy: Walter
 * Jack Gilford: Bernard Lefkowitz
 * Steve Guttenberg: Jack Bonner
 * Maureen Stapleton: Marilyn Luckett
 * Jessica Tandy: Alma Finley
 * Gwen Verdon: Bess McCarthy
 * Herta Ware: Rosie Lefkowitz
 * Tahnee Welch: Kitty
 * Barret Oliver: David
 * Linda Harrison: Susan
 * Tyrone Power Jr.: Pillsbury
 * Clint Howard: John Dexter
 * Actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (Joe and Alma Finley) were in reality also married with each other for more than 50 years.