If you loved Peter Pan, try Explorers

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Peter Pan

1988 · dir. Richard Trueblood, Davyd Cherkaskyi

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Explorers

1985 · dir. Joe Dante

What they share

Theysit in Adventure / Family / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Peter Pan, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Explorers is

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.

If you loved Peter Pan, try Explorers

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What they share

What Explorers is

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