Explorers
The adventure begins in your own back yard.
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books.Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft.
- Director
- Joe Dante
- Worldwide
- $10M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
18 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Explorers returned 0.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $10M
- Release date
- Jul 12, 1985
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- German, English
- Country
- United States of America
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