Explorers

Here's a film that asks: what if a kid's dream literally built a spaceship? A trio of precocious adolescents blasts into space after one reverse-engineers his own subconscious visions. What they find out there is probably not what they expected, or what the studio hoped for.

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Joe Dante directed Explorers in 1985. See Joe Dante's full filmography, where to start with Joe Dante, or where to go after you've seen everything by Joe Dante.

Explorers was released in 1985 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 109 minutes.