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Cocoon (1985)

PG-13 06/21/1985 Comedy, Science Fiction, Mystery, Drama 1h 57m
66%
User
Score
6.7/10
82%
65/100

It is everything you've dreamed of. It is nothing you expect.

Overview

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

Tom Benedek

Screenplay

Ron Howard

Director

David Saperstein

Story

Part of the Cocoon Collection

Includes Cocoon and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Steve Guttenberg

Steve Guttenberg

Jack Bonner

Tahnee Welch

Tahnee Welch

Kitty

Brian Dennehy

Brian Dennehy

Walter

Don Ameche

Don Ameche

Arthur Selwyn

Wilford Brimley

Wilford Brimley

Benjamin Luckett

Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn

Joseph Finley

Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton

Mary Luckett

Jack Gilford

Jack Gilford

Bernie Lefkowitz

Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy

Alma Finley

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Media

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written on July 20, 2020

_**Discovering the "fountain of youth"**_

On the surface "Cocoon" (1985) is about elderly folks at a retirement home in Florida unknowingly finding the "fountain of youth" via a pool on an adjacent property. A peculiar group of people rent the property to store boulder-like objects they take from the bottom of the ocean. As such, the pool acquires healing powers and restore's the old folk's youthful vigor.

Steve Guttenberg stars as the likable protagonist, the boat owner/operator who helps the people get to the objects in the ocean, but he has no idea what's really going on. The stunning Tahnee Welch, Raquel's daughter, plays one of the members of the peculiar group to whom Guttenberg's character takes a liking. Unlike Raquel, who's known for being a bit biyatchy, Tahnee shines with ...

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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written on February 14, 2023

**It deserves to be remembered nowadays.**

I think the 80's were, maybe, the golden age of alien movies. Between comedies or horror films, the quality is quite satisfactory and there is plenty to choose from. This film is, however, one of the least known, perhaps due to the light way in which everything was approached, and it has even fallen into unfair oblivion today. For me, it was a movie that worked better precisely because of that, not least because I'm not a particularly big fan of alien movies.

The film, in fact, is a very light and familiar comedy, pleasant and not made to think too much, nor to be an award-winning film. I really got the feeling that it was an unpretentious project that, at the time, gave very good results, having even won two Oscars, for Best Visual Effects ...

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