Cocoon

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.

• Director: Ron Howard
• Genre:Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:112 minutes

Cast

Don Ameche : Art Selwyn
Wilford Brimley : Ben Luckett

Hume Cronyn : Joe Finley

Brian Dennehy : Walter

Jack Gilford : Bernie Lefkowitz

Around 10,000 years ago, a group of peaceful alien lifeforms, from the planet Antarea, formed an outpost on the planet Earth on an island known to mankind as the mythical civilization Atlantis. According to legend, this outpost sank due to an earthquake, and in order for them to leave, twenty members remained behind so that the rest would have enough lifeforce to return to their home planet.

Eventually, a group of four Antareans returns to pick them up. They disguise themselves as humans, rent a house with a swimming pool, and charge this pool with lifeforce, so that the cocooned Antareans can sustain enough energy to survive the trip home.

Meanwhile, Ben, Arthur and Joe, three local residents from a retirement home (played by Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, and Hume Cronyn respectively) go to swim in the pool secretly and take in some of the lifeforce, which causes them to feel younger, stronger, and happier again. They are caught, but are eventually given permission by the head Antarean, Walter (played by Brian Dennehy), to use the pool. Bernie, one of the other elderly people from the home (played by Jack Gilford) well-known for his extreme pessimism, who also knows of the nature of the aliens, obstinately refuses to use the healing power that he and his dying spouse need, believing it to be unnatural to extend or interfere human life in this manner. He carelessly reveals the secret of the pool’s rejuvenating power one day by confronting his “pool” friends out loud about it during a group dinner at the home and Joe in anger tries to attack him putting down two orderlies in the process, but this results in all of the other elderly residents rushing off and breaking in on to the Antareans’ property, and barging their way into the pool. Walter, infuriated, ejects the retirement home inhabitants, but as too many people have been in the pool at one time (and some of them carelessly tampered with a few of the cocoons), all the life force has been drained, and the Antareans cannot take along the cocoons anymore; in fact, at least one of the cocoon inhabitants dies as a result of the loss of the pool’s nourishing energy. Read more

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