Step 1 : Introduction to the question "2. In what 1982 film did the title character want to "phone home", and manage to on Halloween night?"
...1. Star Man 2. Uncle Buck 3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 4. The Little Mermaid In Steven Spielberg's blockbuster hit, a young boy named Elliot found and befriended an alien who had been left behind on Earth by his people. Throughout the movie, E.T. wanted to make contact with his home. On Halloween, Elliott and his brother disguised E.T. as a ghost and took him to the forest so he could call home. In the end, E.T.'s people came back to get him, and he and Elliot rode Elliot's bike through the sky to get to the spaceship so that E.T. could return home.