When E.T. first came out in 1982, it was an unexpected hit.

For this reason, they took an eternity to release it to video (very uncommon for those days) because of plans to keep re-releasing it.

For some reason this problem with E.T. still persists 30 years later, and it is only now making it to Blu-Ray...

Drew Barrymore started smoking cigarrettes only two years after this film, at age 9.



It really was a good movie, though.