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.

• DirectorJoe Dante
• Release12 July 1985
• Genre
  Science Fiction / Adventure
• Duration1h 49m
• Budget$25,000,000
• Revenue$9,900,000
• Rate
  

  6.24
  469 reviews
• Productions

  Paramount Pictures