the earthling traumatize me a a kid . i do not know how this can be call a family film . my friend ryan and i have talk about this movie effect and he have be just a disturb by it a i be . little ricky schroeder be vacation with his folk in the australian outback and when out of nowhere they be kill . i be not give anything away here and i have read other review mention this plot point . they both go fly over a cliff in the family camper and crash hundred of foot below to their death a little schroeder watch helplessly . how messed up be that . i do not think i ever saw a horror film when i be little that upset me as much a this family film do . couldn not he just have be separate from his parent and and learn to survive on his own until he reunite with them at the end . that would have be a truly uplifting movie with a happy end . but no . we get little ricky meeting die old william holden and whose idea of compassion be and your parent be dead and kid and and that the hard truth . my god and be you kid me . this be hand down the most morbid and downbeat film i have ever see in my life . i have to watch willy wonka about ten time afterwards just to quell this film negative effect . trust me and avoid the earthling at all cost .