Mac and Me

Mac and Me (1988)

  • 0% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 41% of users liked it
    (12,635 ratings)

A wheelchair-bound boy helps to reunite an earthbound alien with its extraterrestrial family in this shameless rip-off of Steven Spielberg's E.T.. Separated from his parents shortly after arriving on planet Earth, a Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) quickly strikes up a friendship with lonely Eric… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Stewart Raffill, Steve Feke
Genres
Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1988 Wide
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times

    It's an amazingly bald-faced copy of E. T. even though this is E. T. in a sticky wrapper, left under the heater two hours too long.

  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Everything about MAC and Me -- not least the fact that it's fairly well-made and involving -- smacks of crass calculation. The filmmakers even have the gall, in the movie's parting shot, to announce a sequel.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune

    Mac and Me is a 99-minute commercial occasionally interrupted by a not-so-good children`s movie.

  • , Time Out

    Give the kids a break; take them to something else.

  • Caryn James, New York Times

    If you made a film about a homesick extraterrestrial befriended by a little boy, would you dare to have the creature look like E. T.'s cousin?

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    Wow, this is bad movie! You can tell from the poster there that it's basically an E.T. copycat.

  • Randy T


    Once upon a time, a marketing exec at McDonald's was watching a VHS tape of <i>E.T.</i> eating Reese's Pieces and thought to himself, "What if we get our own cute little alien, but have him eat french fries instead?!?!?" The rest, ladies and gentlemen,… More

  • Jason O


    How can a great movie like this just average 3 stars, with mostly 1 star reviews? A group of aliens get stranded on Earth, and one of them (the youngest one, named Mac) then gets separated from his family, just to end up at the house of a family who just moved into a new… More

  • Curtis L


    I think i saw this as a kid.

  • Jason S


    A really cheap wannabe ET. The kids will like it but the adults will have a hard time getting past the bad acting and poor story.

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