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title: 'Harry and the Hendersons (1987)'
type: 'film'
director: 'William Dear'
released: '1987-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 110
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Science Fiction'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/harry-and-the-hendersons-1987'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093148/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

1987 · 110 min · Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction · United States


## Synopsis

Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 American fantasy comedy film directed and produced by William Dear and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche, David Suchet, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Lainie Kazan, and Kevin Peter Hall. Steven Spielberg served as its uncredited executive producer, while Rick Baker provided the makeup and the creature designs for Harry. The film tells the story of a Seattle family's encounter with the cryptozoological creature Bigfoot, partially inspired by the numerous claims of sightings in the Pacific Northwest, California, and other parts of both the United States and Canada over three centuries. In conjunction with the film's setting, shooting took place at several locations in the Cascade Range of Washington state near Interstate 90 and the town of Index near US 2, as well as Seattle's Wallingford, Ballard and Beacon Hill neighborhoods and other locations in or around Seattle.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [William Dear](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-dear)
- **Director:** [William Dear](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-dear)
- **Producer:** [William Dear](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-dear)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bruce Broughton](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-broughton)
- **Director of Photography:** [Allen Daviau](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-daviau)
- **Editor:** [Donn Cambern](https://cinepixo.com/people/donn-cambern)

## Cast

- [John Lithgow](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-lithgow)
- [Don Ameche](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-ameche)
- [William Dear](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-dear)
- [John Bloom](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-bloom-2)
- [David Suchet](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-suchet)
- [Kevin Peter Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-peter-hall)
- [Melinda Dillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/melinda-dillon)
- [Margaret Langrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-langrick)
- [M. Emmet Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/m-emmet-walsh)
- [Debbie Lee Carrington](https://cinepixo.com/people/debbie-lee-carrington)
- [Lainie Kazan](https://cinepixo.com/people/lainie-kazan)

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