"I think so sweetheart," says her mom, and for Gertie, like the children who saw the film at the time, the moment becomes a traumatic one. Instantly joining the ranks of Bambi and Up as one of the saddest kids movies of all time with its themes of death and grief, what had seemed like a light and funny film suddenly became something far darker. "Is he dead mommy?" asks Drew Barrymore's Gertie, Elliott's younger sister, who apparently cried for real on set after seeing the apparently deceased body of ET. "Let's pack him in ice and leave," says one doctor in a rather cold manner (probably an ex-Biology teacher), and Elliott watches in horror as his alien friend is covered over. Despite the attempts to resuscitate ET, he seemingly breathes his last.
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