I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from this. It was rather depressing to begin with – high-rise buildings being knocked down by a big businessman, and a rather sad group of people who really wanted to keep their place. This group includes an elderly married couple who run a café; the wife appears to have early forms of dementia. Then there’s an artist whose girlfriend has just left him, a prize-fighter who doesn’t speak to anyone, and a young pregnant woman.

The elderly man is at his wits’ end when help comes from a most unexpected source…

It’s amusing in places, the effects are quite clever for the time (1980s) and still look good even with today’s advanced sophisication. But then Steve Speilburg directed it, and this was the era of ET.

All in all, a pleasant family film.