Cocoon (1985)

Storyline

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. Cocoon, the classic 1985 Ron Howard (best remembered as “Opie” from TV’s “The Andy Griffith Show”, as “Richie” on TV’s “Happy Days”, and as director of many successful movies) science fiction (sci-fi) alien melodrama (“It is everything you’ve dreamed of. It is nothing you expect.”; “Story by David Saperstein”) starring Don Ameche (in his Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winning role), Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, and Tahnee Welch (daughter of Raquel Welch!)