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Explorers is a 1985 family-oriented science-fiction fantasy film written by Eric Luke and directed by Joe Dante. It was the first feature film for both Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix.
The special effects in the movie were produced by Industrial Light & Magic, with makeup effects by Rob Bottin.
Three young friends are drawn into a space fantasy adventure. Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night monster movies, poring over comic books, and playing Galaga in the confines of his bedroom. One night he has a vivid dream of flying over a space-like circuit board and shares his visions with his best friend Wolfgang (River Phoenix), a young scientific genius who is able to translate his dreams into a complex circuit board that actually works.
With the help of their new friend Darren (Jason Presson), they create a homemade spacecraft and embark on a secret adventure to another galaxy where they find that things are not always as different as they seem.
Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem?
Keywords: adolescence, adolescent-romance, alien, alien-contact, boy, boy-genius, boy-with-glasses, bully, bullying, cat
Wak: Look, I know I must look weird to you but how do you think you look to me? Listen, I watched four episodes of "Lassie" before I figured out why the little hairy kid never spoke. I mean, he rolled over, sure, he did that fine but, I don't think he deserved a series for that.
Ben Crandall: [to Steve Jackson, a school bully] Elephantitis is when something gets bloated and ugly like your ASS.
Ben Crandall: [stuttering, astounded at the violent film footage] But thi - see, this isn't real! A-a-and we don't really kill people! Well, we do, b-but n-not aliens, 'cause we haven't met any!
Ben Crandall: He's about to say something.::Wak: [in Bugs Bunny's voice] Ehhhhhhhhhhh, what's up doc?::Ben Crandall: [long pause] What?
Darren Woods: [about "beings" on other planets] Maybe it's a bunch of Amazon rainforest women that wanna breed a new race.::Wolfgang Müller: You pervert.
Ben Crandall: I've waited all my life to say this.::Darren Woods: Be my guest.::Ben Crandall: We come in peace.
Wak: Way to go, stupid!
Starkiller: Bloodshed is my life.
[last lines in the film]::Ben Crandall: If this is all a dream, what's gonna happen when we wake up?::Wolfgang Müller: I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.
Mr. Müller: [to his son's "talking" rat] "Shut up, Heinlein!"