Title: Explorers
Original Title: Explorers
Year: 1985
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 109 Minutes (1 hour 49 min)
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Genre: Adventure Comedy Family
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Distributor: Paramount Pictures
- Age rating: PG (Parental guidance)
Release Dates
- UK: December 19 1986
- United States: July 12 1985
Plot
Released in 1985, 'Explorers' shows the adventures of Ben Candrall, a boy who is obsessed with 50s sci-fi movies and aliens. One day Ben dreamed that he flies in the space, so he convinces his best friend Wolfgang Müller, a very intelligent boy, to design a spaceship. Through their experiments, the kids discover that, directed by a computer, the circuit board can move itself for any place. Together with their new friend Darren, they create the Thunder Road, a spaceship created with garbage with which they travel across the galaxy. This movie meant the cinematic debut of River Phoenix. In spite of being a flop at the box office, 'Explorers' turned into a cult movie that attracted a big number of followers.
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Trivia
Wolfgang's "talking" rat is named Heinlein, after science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, who wrote many stories about young boys experimenting with spaceflight.
During the children's flight over the circuit board at the end of the film, some of the camera angles and moves are meant to mimic the flight to Neverland from Disney's Peter Pan.
Both Wolfgang and Ben have extensive sci-fi literature in their houses. The titles of the books that can be recognized are: 'The Stars My Destination' from Alfred Bester, 'Childhood's End' from Arthur C Clark, 'The End of Eternity' from Isaac Asimov, 'Starmother' from Sydney J. Van Scyoc, 'Midsummer Century' from James Blish, 'The Twilight of Briarers' from Richard Cowper, 'Stargate' from Andre Norton, 'Mindbridge' from Joe Haldeman, 'The Overlords of War' from Gerard Klein and 'Doc Savage' from Kenneth Robeson.
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