The
film opens in a California forest as a group of alien botanists collect
vegetation samples. U.S. government agents appear and the aliens flee
in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The
scene shifts to a suburban California home, where a boy named Elliott
plays servant to his older brother, Michael, and his friends. As he
fetches pizza, Elliott discovers the stranded alien, who promptly
flees. Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott leaves Reese's Pieces
candy in the forest to lure it into his bedroom. Before he goes to bed,
Elliott notices the alien imitating his movements.
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