E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Queens Drive-In, on the grounds of the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, is located at 47-01 111th Street, Corona, New York 11368

Dir. Steven Spielberg. USA, 1982, 115 mins. With Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace. In Spielberg’s enduring masterpiece, one of the most wondrous and deeply touching of all science-fiction movies, young Elliott, a lonely child of divorce, befriends an outer-space creature who has been abandoned by his fellow aliens and yearns for his distant home planet. A symphony of feeling, featuring an audacious, overwhelming score by John Williams and cinematography by Allen Daviau that makes American suburbia look like a nocturnal dreamworld, E.T. is the rare blockbuster that is also a work of art.

Tickets: Starting at $35 per car (up to 5 passengers per car). Members of the presenting organizations will receive a 15% discount. Order tickets online. Learn more about membership and join here. Doors will open each night around 7:30 p.m., events will begin at 8:30 p.m. and end by 11:00 p.m.

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