How many people here grew up watching this movie? I recently picked it up on DVD...and I swear, it brings back just as many wonderful childhood memories for me as E.T. does. In fact, I would say that this and E.T. were probably the two best family movies of the 80's. For anyone who's not familiar with it, it's about a family that accidentally hits a Big Foot with their car in the woods while coming home from a camping trip. They take it home with them, hoping to get rich off of it, but than they realize it's more like a person than an animal, and "Harry" becomes like a member of the family. They decide that they need to take him back to the woods and release him, but Harry runs away and gets lost in the city....and once a bunch of Big Foot sightings begin to occur, people start going gun crazy, including a French Canadian hunter who's been hunting Big Foot his whole life, and won't stop until he's got a Big Foot trophy.

The movie starred John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, and Don Ameche. Keven Peter Hall played Harry (best known for playing the predator in both Predator and Predator 2). The movie came out in theaters in 1987. I didn't see it in theaters, but I saw it for the first time when my family watched it over at some friends' house when it first came to video in 1988. We bought it not to long after that, and than it finally came to DVD recently. One thing I've always thought was really cool about the movie, is that it was filmed around where I live. The Hendersons live in Seattle in the film, and the forests where they find Harry at the beginning of the movie and release him at the end are in the Cascades, which are just to the east of here.

I have seen highlights of the movie, and i even once had a doll of harry.

I love this movie.

I never saw the movie, only the tv series. Btw the tv series was excellent although the humor was a little toned down.

Now I can't stop thinking about Harry. Thanks a lot retromaniac!

Time to buy another dvd.

Oh yes, I'm one of those few people nowadays that still remembers that movie! :D It's defiently one I'm fond of seeing as it came out about 6 months before the day I was born. This movie was also my introduction to John Lithgow.

you really need to see the movie



here is the entire movie on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ9tntbW-Ao

This movie was great.

Ah, another snippit of my childhood brought back to life.

I loved this flick as a kid. I watched this and Three Amigos until the tape wore out.

You can also watch it for free on TV if you have Comcast On Demand. They have it right now under their free movie section. If you can do that, it beats watching it on YouTube. Still, the best way to watch it is buying the $10 DVD.

Thanks everybody, call me the Comcast Kid!

I love this movie! My favourite part is when Harry breaks into their house and starts ripping the dead animals off the walls so that he can put them to rest in the back garden! awwww
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My brother also had the doll. My cousin was terrified of it. :lol:

The 1987 film with the late Kevin Peter Hall (of "Predator" popularity) was very cool. Used to be one of my fave films. I don't think it has been issued on DVD, yet. :/

Actually, it's been on DVD for about a year.

I used to love that movie. I swear I used to see Harry on universal commercials back in the day, either that or I saw advertisements in magazines for Universal and he was in them.
I started to watch it on youtube but had to stop because I knew the ending would just depress me.