The sweet and sentimental story of how a yeti-type creature comes to live with an ordinary family in suburban Seattle and teaches them the lessons of love and peace.

Reminiscent at times of E. T. (and, in fact, co-produced by an uncredited Steven Spielberg), it's full of amusing, touching images - like the gentle Bigfoot mourning the death of a mink stole and the family roast, and burying them in a shallow grave.

Inside the bulky Bigfoot suit is six-feet-seven actor Kevin Peter Hall, who was later typecast as the very tall alien in both 'Predator' movies. Bigfoot's excellent creature effects, by award-winning make-up expert Rick Baker, were Oscar-nominated.