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Flight of the Navigator
1986
· Movie
· 90 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1947
- IMDb #2474
- Google retired #2006
- Rotten Tomatoes #1579
- Metacritic #1631
- Letterboxd #2851
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1604
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2025
- Metacritic Critics #2101
- Metacritic Audience #983
- Criticker #1934
- Kinopoisk #1102
- AlloCiné #1975
- Trakt #1604
Every rating
47–86
out of 100
A 12-year-old boy vanishes in 1978, only to reappear eight years later without having aged a day. He discovers a mysterious alien spacecraft has been found by NASA. He learns that the ship needs his help to return home, and he alone can navigate it. He embarks on a fantastic journey to help his new friend while evading scientists who want to study them both.
Details
- Director
- Randal Kleiser
- Writers
- Matt MacManus, Michael Burton
- Released
- 30 July 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $18.6M
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Awards
4 nominations total
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