Flight of the Navigator (1986)

In 1978, a boy is moved 8 years into the future and has an adventure with the alien ship that is responsible for that.

Director:

Randal Kleiser

Writers:

Mark H. Baker (story), Michael Burton (screenplay),

Stars:

Joey Cramer, Paul Reubens, Veronica Cartwright

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Joey Cramer	...	David Freeman
Paul Reubens	...	Max (voice) (as Paul Mall)
Veronica Cartwright	...	Helen Freeman
Cliff De Young	...	Bill Freeman
Sarah Jessica Parker	...	Carolyn McAdams
Matt Adler	...	Jeff (16 years)
Howard Hesseman	...	Dr. Faraday
Robert Small	...	Troy
Albie Whitaker	...	Jeff (8 years)
Jonathan Sanger	...	Dr. Carr
Iris Acker	...	Mrs. Howard
Richard Liberty	...	Mr. Howard
Raymond Forchion	...	Detective Banks
Cynthia Caquelin	...	Woman Officer
Ted Bartsch	...	Night Guard Brayton

Storyline

A 12 year old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, David hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time David 'comes back', a flying saucer is found, entangled in electricity cables.

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Plot Keywords:

boy | flying saucer | 12 year old | alien | doctor | 

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Taglines:

David is eight years late for dinner... and the U.S. Government wants to know why. But David has an excuse, an absolutely fantastic excuse!

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Genres:

Family | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

USA Norway

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 July 1986 (USA)

Also Known As:

El vuelo del navegante

Filming Locations:

615 Idlewyld Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Box Office

Gross:

$18,564,613 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Star, Producers Sales Organization (PSO), Viking Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In his room in Nasa base, David asks when "Starsky and Hutch" is broadcast. Director Randal Kleiser also directed Starsky and Hutch.

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Goofs

The ship hovers directly above some cows, which do not look up, or even look around them. Prey species are never unaware of their surroundings.

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Quotes

Max: I crashed into electrical towers and my star charts were erased. I need the ones in your head to complete my mission.
David: So you need ME and my INFERIOR brain to fly that thing?
Max: Correction, I need the SUPERIOR information in your INFERIOR brain to fly this... thing.

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Connections

Featured in Troldspejlet: Tegnefilm på computer (1989)

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Soundtracks

"Walk While In My Blues"
Written by Will Jennings
Performed by Steve Tyrell

User Reviews

A classic family movie

For the fist time I saw Flight of The Navigator when I was a kid, nearly twenty years ago. I remember young soviet kids flocked into the theaters to see a strange American movie and somehow taped it but too many time has passed and all these years it was like a rather unclear distant memory for me, a distant memory of something pretty good and even beautiful. Since then I was unable to find it and watch it again and only recently I caught in on a cable TV channel. Despite being twenty seven years old now I still liked it a lot.

Flight of The Navigator is a very good Sci-fi family movie despite (or some people could say thanks to) it is not as overloaded by the special effects as most of such modern movies. That left enough place not only for pure entertainment bit also for emotions and some pretty nice scenes with rather good dialogs. It the story of an eleven years old boy, who after a strange and quite inexplicable contact with something looked like an alien ship got moved through the time into future several years ago, which passed for him like a couple of hours. In this future he takes an adventure to find an explanation what really happened with him. Flight of The Navigator is a very enjoyable movie for whole family, which deserves much more appreciation than overwhelming majority of recent family movies.

9 out of 10