Cocoon (1985) on Netflix
Aliens disguised as humans rent a house beside the Sunny Shores Rest Home in St. Petersburg, Florida. Three residents swim in the pool and come out feeling younger and stronger.
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Plot summary
Disguised as humans, a group of Antareans arrives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and takes a house with a pool. They hire the local captain Jack Bonner and his boat, the Manta III, to lift cocoons off the sea floor. The cocoons hold Antareans left behind on the group's outpost on Atlantis, and the pool water carries a life force that will keep them alive on the trip home. Next door, at the Sunny Shores Rest Home, three residents named Ben Luckett, Arthur Selwyn and Joe Finley slip into the pool to swim. They soak up some of the life force and start to feel younger and stronger. Walter, the leader of the Antareans, catches them, then allows them to keep swimming so long as they stay away from the cocoons and say nothing to anyone else.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cocoon (1985)
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- The retirement home's curved hallway set, which Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry admired after seeing the film, was later redressed to become the corridor design aboard the Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Robert Zemeckis was originally hired to direct but was fired after 20th Century Fox soured on him following the studio's poor reaction to his prior film and two earlier commercial flops; Ron Howard replaced him.
- Actor Wilford Brimley was only 49, and turned 50 during filming, when cast as a senior citizen, as much as 26 years younger than his co-stars playing the other elderly characters, and used bleached hair and drawn-on wrinkles to look the part.
- Wilford Brimley's youthful age when the film came out later spawned an internet meme comparing other stars' ages, such as Tom Cruise's, to his at the time.
