Puzzled a bit by CK's characterization of Ron Howard, I found this URL about the movie:
http://www.foxhome.com/capsule/cocoon.htm There were a couple more sites to be found by searching for "Ron Howard movie Cocoon" ("Peter Pan surrogate" sounds a bit cruel.) I vaguely remember Ron Howard as juvenile in TV show my son liked, but I never watched. What did he do wrong, CK?