The similarities in Mac and Me and ET don’t stop at an almost one to one plot copy. Many people who grew up in the time where ET: The Extra Terrestrial was new and prevalent in pop culture might remember an incredibly successful product placement that made Reece’s Pieces synonymous with this heartfelt, family film. These include the unbreakable bond between a young child and an alien, hiding said alien from adults, fleeing from government agents that want to take away the alien, flying through the air on a wheeled vehicle (a bicycle in ET and the Eric’s wheelchair in Mac and Me), and the resurrection of the human boy from death by the alien. The film also follows almost every plot point of ET. While evil government agents pursue Mac, Eric, and his friend, Debbie (Lauren Stanley), must hide their alien friend until Mac and his family can be made American citizens. Mac and Me is a film about a wheelchair bound boy named Eric (Jade Calegory) who befriends a voyeuristic alien named Mac (Mysterious Alien Creature) after losing control of his wheelchair and falling into a lake. In other words, it’s a hot steaming mess. If you’ve never seen the 1988 film Mac and Me before, it’s what you get when you combine a Spielburg blockbuster hit with a grotesque amount of advertising aimed at young children.

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