Joe Dante’s Explorers (1985): The Best Movie You Never Saw
They don’t make movies for kids like they used to. I know, that makes me sound really old, but the…
This adventurous space tale stars Ethan Hawke and young star River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory. Ben Crandall is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night B monster movies, pouring over comic books, and playing Galaga in the confines of his bedroom. But one night he has a vivid dream of flying over a space-like circuit board and shares his visions with his best friend Wolfgang, a young scientific genius who is able to translate his dreams into a complex computer program that actually works. With the help of their new friend, they create a homemade spacecraft and embark on a secret adventure to another galaxy where they find that things are not always as different as they seem.
They don’t make movies for kids like they used to. I know, that makes me sound really old, but the…
Okay, let's go ahead and get this out of the way right off the bat, Joe Dante's 1985 coming-of-age sci-fi film EXPLORERS…
I had actually completely forgotten about Joe Dante's EXPLORERS until just this moment, but it all came flooding back immediately….
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I recall nothing about 1985. I was only a year old. So I can’t say that I ever caught Joe…
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