Based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison, this is a story about a
particular landing by an alien spacecraft in which one of their members
got stranded. He was afraid of what the scientists who were after him
would do to him and hid from them. But he was attracted to some kids
that lived nearby, who became his companion and protector during his
brief stay on Earth.
The
kids hid him in a closet and supplied him things with which he
constructed an equipment which he used to send messages “home,” as well
as food. From a human point of view the being was ugly, three-feet tall,
more like a large frog. But it had extraordinary powers, to heal
wounds, telepathy, to make plants grow, make things float in the air,
communicate with computers. Eventually he got sick and then the
sky-watchers who originally spotted his craft discovered him. But after
he appeared dead for a while he became alive again, was able to make
contact with his spaceship, and through the aid of the kids again, got
back to the site where the communication equipment had been kept and
where the spaceship landed to pick him up.
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