Then again, they had to split the profits with the Ronald McDonald House(!) so if you figure that after the theater takes half, and the RMH took their vig, that only left about $1.5 million for Orion Pictures, the studio that made this film. Even with that total it was considered a box-office bomb, which makes one wonder: how much did this piece of crap cost to make ? Unfortunately those numbers were never released, but if the budget was more than ten cents it was nine cents too much. It made $6.4 million during its theatrical release, which is a surprising amount until you figure there were a lot of 6-year-olds visiting their grandparents in early August 1988 and only adult films were apparently in theaters at the time. Of course, I was wrong: Mac and Me is a complete garbage can of a movie, a sub-basement ET: The Extra-Terrestrial made in cooperation with McDonald’s (hence the prominent product placement of McDonald’s throughout and–apropos of nothing–an entire dance number that takes place at a McDonald’s) and a naked cash grab to ride off the success of ET six years after that film was released. And being 6 years old with the cognitive power of a bowl of soup, I enjoyed it because it was a movie I went to see with my grandma and mom in the theaters. I was visiting my grandparents in Virginia Beach and spending the day with my grandma, mom, and sisters, and since everything else out in the theater was definitely not kid-friendly (the weekend it opened, August 12, 1988, here were the other movies on offer: Clean & Sober, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams, Young Guns, and The Last Temptation of Christ ), we bought five tickets and went to an afternoon matinee of Mac and Me. It also marks the first film appearance of Jennifer Aniston.True story: I saw Mac and Me in theaters when I was 6 years old.
Mac and Me is a science fiction family comedy with a total running time of 99 minutes. Eventually, the family agrees to help MAC reunite with his family, which leads them through an adjacent neighborhood, an abandoned mine, a shootout at a supermarket, and even an explosion that results in several near-death experiences. The alien then undoes all of the damage his powers inflicted upon the neighborhood.Ī pair of FBI agents is dispatched to hunt down "MAC," only for Eric and MAC to elude them during a party. When Eric's parents refuse to believe Eric about aliens, Eric sets a trap that winds up causing a power outage upon capturing the alien. Only a day after encountering it, the infant alien rescues the wheelchair-bound Eric, who suffers from spina bifida, from drowning in a lake after the boy's wheelchair malfunctions. As the aliens escape, the littlest one follows the Cruise family of Eric, Michael, and Janet, while the other aliens wind up in a desert. “Mac and Me” is the story of a quartet of aliens that make their way to Earth after a NASA scan accidentally vacuums them. It also marks the first film appearance of Jennifer Aniston.
A pair of FBI agents is dispatched to hunt down "MAC," only for Eric and MAC to elude them during a party. The alien then undoes all of the damage his powers inflicted upon the neighborhood.
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