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Cocoon

Duration: 1 hour, 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland

Oscar-winning sci-fi fantasy in which the residents of a Florida rest-home get a new lease of life when they stumble across an alien 'fountain of youth' in a disused vacation house. Unbeknown to them, aliens have been using the swimming pool in the house to store their cocooned brethren, giving the waters a powerful, rejuvenating quality. Show less

Contributors

Art Selwyn:
Don Ameche
Ben Luckett:
Wilford Brimley
Joe Finley:
Hume Cronyn
Bernie Lefkowitz:
Jack Gilford
Jack Bonner:
Steve Guttenberg
Mary Luckett:
Maureen Stapleton
Alma Finley:
Jessica Tandy
Bess McCarthy:
Gwen Verdon
Rosie Lefkowitz:
Herta Ware
Director:
Ron Howard
Producer:
David Brown
Composer:
James Horner
Director of photography:
Don Peterman

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