It turns out Max’s files were damaged in the crash, and without files stored in David’s memory, he can never find his way home.
He eventually sneaks aboard the ship and meets Max (Paul Reubens), the onboard computer. NASA scientists then intervene, suspecting that David’s disappearance and lack of aging might have something to do with an alien spaceship that crashed nearby. He hasn’t aged, but his family sure has: his younger brother is now a robust teen, and his parents (Veronica Cartwright and Cliff DeYoung) have gone prematurely grey with worry. The film tells the story of David (Joey Cramer), an All-American kid who slips and falls into a ditch one day…and wakes up eight years later. With that in mind, we hereby offer up another cult classic of the 80s era…įlight of the Navigator debuted on movie screens in 1986, and despite good reviews, didn’t make much of an impact at the box office. The outpouring of enthusiasm over last week’s Fright Night entry in Screen Gems continues to surprise us. Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.
