Cocoon

Cocoon (1985)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Release date

1985-06-21

Country

United States

Production

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

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Budget

$17 500 000

Revenue

$85 313 124

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Director

Ron Howard

Actors

Steve Guttenberg, Tahnee Welch, Brian Dennehy, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Gilford, Jessica Tandy, Clint Howard
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Scenario

Producer

Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown, Lili Fini Zanuck

Operator

Donald Peterman

Composer

James Horner

Artist

Audition

Penny Perry, Beverly McDermott

Editing

Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
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• Robert Zemeckis was originally intended to direct the film, but after about a year of working on the project, he was replaced by Ron Howard. The director later explained his departure by saying that he showed the studio executives a work-in-progress version of his other project, 'Romancing the Stone' (1984), which made a very negative impression on them and, in the opinion of many, was doomed to fail.
• Ron Howard's brother, father, and mother appear in cameo roles in the film.
• At the time of filming, Wilford Brimley was only 50 years old. To make him appear much older than his age, his hair was dyed gray.
• Humphrey Cronin and Jessica Tandy, who played the elderly couple Joseph and Alma Finley in the film, were actually married for many years.
• After the film's release, the special effects team admitted in an interview that the dolphins shown in the underwater scenes were not real, but specially constructed robots.