Mac and Me
A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) separated from his family and stranded on Earth and trying to escape from NASA, finds friendship with Eric, a handicapped youth. New to town and in need of a pal after losing his father, Eric discovers just how amazing the universe can be when mischievous MAC takes him on the adventure of a lifetime.
12 March 1947, Bedford, Ohio, USA
5 August 1953, New York, USA
28 October 1937, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA
9 February 1943, Oakland, California, USA
1940, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
11 December 1936, Newark, New Jersey, USA
11 February 1969, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
28 August 1937, Southampton, New York, USA
12 April 1976
7 May 1947, USA
28 August 1967, Orange County, California, USA
24 February 1970, Elkridge, Maryland, USA
1 June 1958, Seattle, Washington, USA
May 14, 2013
Possibly aware that they have something less than a classic on their hands, the makers of MAC and Me have cut their losses by making the film into a kind of cinematic billboard: all space is for sale.May 14, 2013
Mac and Me simply is an uninspired, fast-food version of E.T., The Extraterrestrial.July 20, 2012
So-bad-it's-good "E.T." rip-off; lots of product placement.April 30, 2014
Director Stewart Raffill's film is otherwise an unashamed rip-off of Spielberg's classic.June 24, 2006
Give the kids a break; take them to something else.April 30, 2014
A blatant commercial for McDonald's and Coca-Cola disguised as an E.T. rip-off.August 30, 2004
If you made a film about a homesick extraterrestrial befriended by a little boy, would you dare to have the creature look like E. T.'s cousin?May 14, 2013
Everything about MAC and Me -- not least the fact that it's fairly well-made and involving -- smacks of crass calculation. The filmmakers even have the gall, in the movie's parting shot, to announce a sequel.May 14, 2013
A mercenary display of product placement and a bad advertisment for filmmaking.May 14, 2013
Mac and Me is a 99-minute commercial occasionally interrupted by a not-so-good children`s movie.January 01, 2000
So why is it so hard to like this film? Having seen it done so much better by Spielberg doesn't help, of course.May 14, 2013
It's an amazingly bald-faced copy of E. T. even though this is E. T. in a sticky wrapper, left under the heater two hours too long.