The three-foot-tall body model was used during one of the movie’s most iconic scenes, in which the orphaned extraterrestrial hides among stuffed animals in the closet of 10-year-old Elliott (played by ...

ET arrives providentially. The one-parent household is about to implode for want of a dad - he's gone off with another woman. Ten-year-old Elliott (Henry Thomas) adopts the little denizen found ...