If you loved E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, try Flight of the Navigator

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Flight of the Navigator has roughly 12.8× fewer votes than E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1982 · dir. Steven Spielberg

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Flight of the Navigator

1986 · dir. Randal Kleiser

What they share

Theyboth carry the cozy, tender mood tags, and they sit in Adventure / Family / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Flight of the Navigator is

Apparently time travel is just a concussion away. David awakens from a forest accident to find eight years passed. NASA gets involved, because aliens.

If you loved E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, try Flight of the Navigator

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Flight of the Navigator

What they share

What Flight of the Navigator is

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