Harry succeeds in resurrecting the dead machine, which returns to its family just as the other children are taught to fly. Frank and Faye see a boost of business in the café from the demolition crew, while the Fix-Its help in the kitchen.
Faye buries the stillborn in a flowerpot the next day, but then Harry digs it back up takes it back to his apartment and succeeds in reviving it.
After consuming plenty of metal and electrical objects, it gives birth to three baby Fix-Its name, Wheems, Flotsam and Jetsam, although Wheems is stillborn. Carlos comes back to threaten the tenants once again, the Fix-Its then lure him to the top of the building and into the shed where they scare him away by giving him an electric shock.įaye and Marisa learn that Carmen is actually pregnant. The boarders debate the creatures origins, but Frank puts an end to the discussion by stating "the quickest way to end a miracle is to ask it why it is". The two extraterrestrials name, male, Kilowatt and female, Carmen take up residence in the shed at the top of the apartment building, where Faye (and soon the other tenants) supplies them with metal objects to eat. Things look bleak until the appearance of a pair of flying, living machines (later nicknamed "The Fix-Its" by Faye), descend into the Rileys' apartment that evening, repairing many of the items that were broken and restoring the café. With this assault and Faye's dementia growing (her now believing Carlos to be their long-dead son "Bobby"), Frank contemplates giving in. After Frank Riley refuses to move, Carlos vandalizes the café, breaking a sentimental photo frame in the process. When the tenants resist, they punch through artist Mason Baylor's ( Dennis Boutsikaris) door, intimidate pregnant single mother Marisa Esteval ( Elizabeth Peña) and break retired boxer Harry Knoble's ( Frank McRae) jar of tiles. Lacey, under pressure from his corporate bosses to evict the tenants and start construction, sends a hoodlum named Carlos and his gang of thugs to bribe the couple and their tenants to move out. Frank and Faye Riley (respectively Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), an elderly couple who run an apartment building and café in the run-down East Village neighborhood, come under threat by a nearby property development. The film is set in contemporary New York City. Many of the film's foreign releases (including at least Swedish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Latin American Spanish) used the title Miracle on 8th Street.
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The story was originally intended to be featured in the TV series Amazing Stories, but Steven Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release. Batteries Not Included (styled *batteries not included) is a 1987 family- science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development.