![]() ![]() The Rileys' friends, Muriel and Sid Hogensin, take Lacey's bribe and decide to move to a retirement home in New Jersey. She dumps Mason, packs up and before leaving, advises Mason to quit being an artist and get a steady job. Mason's girlfriend, Pamela is tired of living in an old, depressing building with a guy whose art career is going nowhere. This assault convinces three of the tenants to move out. After Frank Riley refuses to move, Carlos vandalizes the café. When the tenants resist, Carlos and his thugs punch through artist Mason Baylor's door, intimidate pregnant single mother Marisa Esteval, and break retired boxer Harry Noble's jar of tiles. ![]() ![]() The development manager, Lacey, sends a hoodlum named Carlos and his gang of thugs to bribe the couple and their tenants to move out. It was the feature film screenwriting debut of Brad Bird.įrank and Faye Riley, an elderly couple who manage an apartment building and café in the East Village, come under threat by a nearby property development. The story was originally intended to be featured in the television series Amazing Stories, but executive producer Steven Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to adapt it into a film. Batteries Not Included (stylized as *batteries not included) is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living spaceships that save an apartment block under threat from property development. ![]()
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