Step 1 : Introduction to the question "What was the highest grossing movie of the 1980s?"
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed "E.T.", who is stranded on Earth. The concept was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce in 1960. Spielberg’s masterpiece was the highest grossing film of the 1980s bring in a whopping $435 million. E.T. even surpassed Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time—a record it held for eleven years until Jurassic Park, another Spielberg-directed film, surpassed it in 1993.