Batteries Not Included

Batteries Not Included is an American family movie cum- science fiction film from 1987 by Matthew Robbins with starring among others Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy .

[Story Edit ]
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The film is set in the poor neighborhood East Village in New York City, where the elderly couple Frank ( Hume Cronyn ) and Faye Riley ( Jessica Tandy ), an apartment building and running the corresponding bar. The unscrupulous developer Lacey wants to demolish the building, but the Riley's and other residents as the pregnant single Mary ( Elizabeth Peña ) and former boxer Harry ( Frank McRae ) will not count here chord, and Lacey the criminal Carlos and his mates on throws.

Then dive two flying, "living" machines, restoring the destroyed cafe by Carlos and his men. By Faye the "Fix-Its" baptized creatures chasing Carlos road, which this decision has yet to deploy heavier resources.

[Production edit ]
The story was originally intended as delivery of Steven Spielberg's television series Amazing Stories, but the concept appealed to him so that he decided to make a feature film, with himself as executive producer.

The "Fix-Its" were made ​​by Industrial Light & Magic .