They talked about other things as well -- like the birthday boy Henry bragging about how he'd been kicking Ben's butt on iPad games, and Nash telling them she'd gotten the brothers an Xbox for Christmas.

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The motley cast of characters includes a dodgy, pockmarked contractor (Mark Lee), a hopelessly unhip coffee-shop boy (Henry Thia) and tattooed loan sharks, all of them relentlessly chasing money.

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It focused on the relationship between the homesick alien and a young boy, Elliott, played by Henry Thomas.

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