This warm-hearted Spielbergian cryptozoological adventure didn’t fare quite as well as the colossal hits he was producing earlier in the decade, but it’s far from being the Skunk Ape critics panned – the boy-and-his-bigfoot formula is still a fun Sask-watch 38 years later.
While John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon are excellent as the harried parents, the real star is Rick Baker’s animatronic hirsute monster suit worn by the late Kevin Peter Hall. -Pop
Harry and the Hendersons emerged on home video this week in 1987, after a June 5th theatrical release.