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Special Features
- Behind-the-scenes featurette
- Ron Howard profile
- Underwater training
- Actors
- Creating Antareans
- Still gallery
Editorial Reviews
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An offbeat and charming comedy with elements of science fiction thrown in, director Ron Howard's (Ransom, Apollo 13) unlikely fantasy ponders the price of immortality and the power of everlasting love. A group of aliens travel to a Florida retirement community to rescue some long-stranded colleagues cocooned and buried beneath the sea. But as the aliens take on human form and stash their counterparts in a swimming pool, a group of elderly retirees discover the pool and after swimming in the water find themselves rejuvenated, with boundless energy and insatiable appetites. Soon the retirees are forced to choose between living out their lives on earth with their families, or leaving with the aliens and attaining immortality. More character driven than dependent on the incredible plot, the film's charm comes from its characters and the wonderful cast, including Don Ameche, who won an Academy Award for his role as one of the randy retirees. --Robert Lane
Product Description
Don Ameche (1985 Academy Award®, Best Supporting Actor), Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Wilford Brimley and Steve Guttenberg star in this charming fantasy adventure.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
When I first saw this film on video, I decided to rent a video player and visit my elderly parents...and they never had such a good time.My folks are gone now, and my stubborn dad, who hated practically everything, laughed is butt off. He hated movies, in general, but his reaction to "Cocoon" was gratifyting to me. I could analyze many aspects of the film, but there's little to say, other than the fact that the actors were in touch with their material and ran with it. Ron Howard made a more important film than he may know. To me, anyway... Every old folk should see this film.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
A group of aliens arrives in a Florida retirement community to rescue their colleagues who have been cocooned and settled beneath the sea. The aliens unzip and zip on their human costumes - the initial unveiling, witnessed by the boat captain, is beautiful and worthy of an award - and stash their rescued buddies in the compound's swimming pool. The retirees, after swimming in the pool, experience personal rejuvenation: they make love like teenage boys, eat like athletes, and Don Ameche's Olympian diving performance is memorable in itself. And then the retirees, now in on the secret, are asked to choose between attaining immortality by leaving with the aliens - or living our their lifespan on earth with their surviving loved ones.
Wonderful, heartening and heartbreaking, inspiring film, directed by Ron Howard, and soooo beautifully cast.
Wonderful, heartening and heartbreaking, inspiring film, directed by Ron Howard, and soooo beautifully cast.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This is one of the few movies I've seen that has really made me cry. Director Ron Howard scores it big with this wonderful movie, and the plot is verrrrry original; three old men who live at a retirement center sneak over to a close-by deserted house every day to take a swim in the swimming pool. But a group of aliens disguised as humans come down to earth to save some of their comrades that they left there thousands of years ago, who are now sealed in large rock-like cocoons beneath the ocean, and take them home. And when they put the cocoons in the swimming pool to keep them alive and the old men go for a swim, they come out feeling like a million bucks! This would be a perfect family film if it wasn't so sexual and vulgar at times (hence the PG-13 rating). But for nine years and up, this is a sure treat. Don Ameche does a wonderful job as one of the old men, and Steve Guttenberg is downright funny as the guy who owns the boat the aliens use, and has a love affair with one of the aliens, as well. It has good lessons on friendship and love, and is a tear-jerker at times. A VERY GOOD movie!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Very Good Science Fiction
I'm going to tag this one "all star cast" partly because a lot of the people are faces that are terribly familiar, but I am no good at putting a name on each face. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Barbara Frederick
AM I THE ONLY ONE?
COCOON is a beloved classic for anyone with a soul--I love it. But that's not my issue. The disc is double-sided and supposedly has Widescreen on one side and Fullscreen on the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by shrinkwrap
An old favorite revisted
O.K., Cocoon isn't among Hollywood's Top 100 All-Time Best Movies, but so what?
It's good mind candy for an evening, tapping into even young viewers' desire to retain... Read more
It's good mind candy for an evening, tapping into even young viewers' desire to retain... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Loren C. Gruber
Excellent movie!
I love this movie and have watched it many times. Whenever possible I watch Cocoon and Cocoon: The Return back-to-back. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Robin James
Memories
This movie brought back so many memories of the first time we saw it as a family. We enjoyed it all over again. Love the actors.
Published 9 months ago by LUCFLODEL
Wonderful, Sensual Portrayal of Older Men and Women
One of the best things Ron Howard did in this movie was portraying seniors in such a wonderful light. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Honolulu Lulu
DO WHAT?
Believe it or not I just bought it and haven't recieved it yet but writting the review anyway! How can I do that, simple I remember it and it was a great movie along the same time... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Russell A. Comer
It somehow works
I cannot say that I'm a huge fan on Ron Howard's movies, though I think they're always solid. And when I read about "Cocoon", it strikes me that it is odd that I would like it at... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mads H. Andersen
Cute movie but DVD skipped
I saw this when it first came out many years ago and wanted to add this to my collection of favorite movies. It is a heartwarming "human" story; aliens and sci-fi are the backdrop. Read more
Published 11 months ago by maggie
Embarrassing
For a movie that's given 4 1/2 stars, Cocoon is unbelievably bad. For old folks? My wife and I are in our late 80's, and we had to force ourselves to a finish that was obvious... Read more
Published 15 months ago by John H. Hancock
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