Film: The Glitterball

Made for kids, but incredibly entertaining for adults as well, this low-budget British adventure flick was clearly a big influence on Steven Spielberg’s later smash hit E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, in that it’s about a group of kids who discover a tiny space alien and join forces to protect the creature from both the Army and a gangster who are each trying to capture the space creature for their own nefarious purposes.