Mac and Me

Mac and Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStewart Raffill
Written by
  • Steve Feke
  • Stewart Raffill
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNick McLean
Edited byTom Walls
Music byAlan Silvestri
Production
companies
Mac and Me Joint Venture
Distributed byOrion Pictures (North America)
Vision International (International)
Release dates
  • August 5, 1988 (1988-08-05) (Hong Kong)
  • August 12, 1988 (1988-08-12) (United States)
Running time
99 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13 million[2]
Box office$6.4 million[3]

Mac and Me is a 1988 American science fiction film directed by Stewart Raffill, and co-written with Steve Feke. Starring Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, and Tina Caspary alongside Lauren Stanley and Jade Calegory, it centers on a "Mysterious Alien Creature" (MAC) that escapes from nefarious NASA agents and befriends a boy named Eric Cruise. Together, they try to find MAC's family, from whom he has been separated.

The film performed poorly at the box office and was universally panned by critics, partly due to plot lines similar to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), as well as its elaborate product placement of McDonald's and Coca-Cola. It was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards and won Worst Director and Worst New Star (for Ronald McDonald). However, it received four Youth in Film Awards (now Young Artist Awards) nominations. Due to its poor reception, Orion Pictures cancelled the planned sequel. While regarded as one of the worst films ever made, it has become a cult film, and was featured during the twelfth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

  1. ^ "Mac and Me (U)". British Board of Film Classification. July 22, 1988. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
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