Batteries Not Included

*Batteries Not Included
original movie poster by Drew Struzan
Directed by	Matthew Robbins
Produced by	Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall Ronald L. Schwary
Screenplay by	Brad Bird Matthew Robbins Brent Maddock S.S. Wilson
Story by	Mick Garris
Starring	Hume Cronyn Jessica Tandy
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	John McPherson
Edited by	Cynthia Scheider
Production company	Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	December 18, 1987 (1987-12-18)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Box office	$65.1 million

Batteries Not Included (stylized as *batteries not included) is a 1987 family-comic science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living space ships that save an apartment block under threat from property development. The story was originally intended to be featured in the TV series Amazing Stories, but executive producer Steven Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release. It is also notable for being the feature film screenwriting debut of Brad Bird, who was one of the writers and producers of the movie.

Many of the film's foreign releases (including at least Swedish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, American Spanish, and Japanese) used the title Miracle on 8th Street.

Frank and Faye Riley (Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), an elderly couple who run an apartment building and café in the run-down East Village neighborhood, come under threat by a nearby property development. The development manager, Lacey, sends a hoodlum named Carlos and his gang of thugs to bribe the couple and their tenants to move out. When the tenants resist, Carlos and his thugs punch through artist Mason Baylor's (Dennis Boutsikaris) door, intimidate pregnant single mother Marisa Esteval (Elizabeth Peña) and break retired boxer Harry Noble's (Frank McRae) jar of tiles. After Frank Riley refuses to move, Carlos vandalizes the café.