Cocoon

"It is everything you've dreamed of. It is nothing you expect."

Jun 21 1985 PG-13 1h 57m
Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

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

Plot

A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they'd left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they'd rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.

Written by

Tom Benedek, David Saperstein

Directed by

Ron Howard

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox, Zanuck/Brown Productions, SLM Production Group

Languages

English

Awards

Won 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 11 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
70,762
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
65
Popularity
NA