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A 1985 German film written and directed by [[Roland Emmerich]] prior to making his big move to Hollywood.
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It was filmed in the US with English-speaking German actors and released there under the title ''Making Contact''. A longer cut, dubbed into German, was released to theaters in Emmerich's native Germany under the title ''Joey''. The German cut runs twenty minutes longer than the US one and has a more ambiguous ending than the American version. Although it contains a different story from them, it contains numerous references to the earlier films of [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[George Lucas]] (in particular ''[[Star Wars]]'' and ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'').
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Bizarrely, averted early on, then subverted and finally ultimately played depressingly straight as the film progresses and focuses more and more on the children.
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: Various giant monsters, including a monster-sized version of Fletcher, but the most noteworthy is a giant killer hamburger.
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