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Explorers (1985)
Country
of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1985
Running Times: 109 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm 70mm Ultracam
35
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: 70mm 6-Track Dolby
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Executive Producer: Michael Finnell
Producers: David Bombyk, Edward S. Feldman
Associate Producer: Tom Jacobson
Production Manager: Tom Jacobson
Production Coordinator: Chrissie England
SCRIPT
Script: Eric Luke
DIRECTION
Director: Joe Dante
2nd Unit Director: Jack Cooperman
1st Assistant Director: Pat Kehoe
2nd Assistant Director: Carol Green
2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Eric Wall
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John Hora
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Jack Cooperman
Additional Photographer: Charles Correll
Camera Operator: Eric D. Andersen
1st Assistant Camera: Norman Cattell
2nd Assistant Camera: Alfredo Sepulveda
Key Grip: Peter Wagner
Dolly Grip: Peter J. Breen
Chief Lighting Technician: Randy Glass
Best Boy Grips: Al Contreras, Michael Liakos
Electrician: Joseph W. Cardoza
Stills: Larry Barbier, Robbie Robinson
Video Supervisor: Hal Landaker
Cameras and Lenses: Panavision
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Tina Hirsch
Alien Spaceship Sequence Editor: John Wright
Assistant Editors: Saul Saladow, Kathy Virkler
Apprentice Editor: Scot Scalise
Negative Cutting: White Gloves Inc
MUSIC
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Songs: R. Blackwell, M. Millet (All Around the World);
Jack Blades, Brad Gillis (This Boy Needs To Rock); Gene
Stashuk, Michael Becker (Less Than Perfect)
Songs Performed By: Little Richard (All Around the
World); Night Ranger (This Boy Needs To Rock); Red 7
(Less Than Perfect)
Additional Compositions: Leo Robin; Ralph Rainger; Jay
Livingston, Ray Evans; Winston Sharples; Leith Stevens
Orchestrator: Arthur Morton
Music Recording Mixer: Bruce Botnick
Music Editor: Kenneth Hall
Music Engineer: Greg Fulginiti
SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Ken King
Boom Operator: Douglas Vaughan
Re-Recordist: Walter A. Gest
Re-Recording Mixers: Robert J. Litt, Michael Minkler,
Elliot Tyson
Supervising Sound Editor: Mark Mangini
ADR Editors: Nicholas Vincent Korda, Steve Purvis
Sound Effects Recordist: Doug Hemphill
Sound Effects: Mark Mangini
Sound Effects Editors: John Dun, Bonnie Koehler, Warren
Hamilton, David E. Stone
Foley Supervisor: Solange S. Schwalbe
Foley Artist: John Roesch
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Scott H. Eddo
Hair: Paul Abascal
Costume Designer: Rosanna Norton
SPECIAL MAKE UP
EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Rob Bottin, Zoltan Elek, Vincent
Prentice, Dennis Pawlik
Special Effects Contact Lenses: Clive R. Kay
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Industrial Light and Magic; Rob Bottin
Productions; The L.A. Effects Group
Special Effects Coordinator: Robert MacDonald
Special Effects: Dennis Pawlik
Visual Displays: Douglas R. MacMillan, Omnibus Computer
Graphics Center Inc
Special Effects Foreman: Dennis Petersen
Mechanical Effects Supervisor: Ed Felix
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Bruce Nicholson
Visual Effects Coordinator: Ralph Winter
Visual Effects: Pamela Marcotte
Director of Visual Effects Photography: Don Dow
Visual Effects Camera: Selwyn Eddy, Michael Owens, Pat
Sweeney
Visual Effects 1st Assistant Camera: Pat Turner
Visual Effects Editor: Michael Gleason
Visual Effecst Art Director: Nilo Rodis-Jamero
Animation Supervisor: Bruce Walters
Visual Effects Animators: Barbara Brennan, Ellen E.
Lichtwardt, Jack Mongovan, Peggy Regan, Jay Riddle
Rotoscoper: Sandy Houston
Model Makers: Barbara Affonso, William Beck, Bill George,
Jeff Mann, Claudia Mullaly, Wesley Seeds, Larry Tan, Marc
Thorpe
Character Miniature Supervisor: Dave Sosalla
Matte Photography Supervisors: Craig Barron, Michael
Pangrazio
Matte Photography: Wade Childress, Paul Huston
Opticals: Universal Optical and Title
Optical Camera Operators: Don Clark, James Hagedorn,
James Lim, Chris Regan
Process Supervisor: Bill Hansard Sr
Process Coordinator: Bill Hansard Jr
Titles: Kaleidoscope Film Effects
DIGITAL EFFECTS
CG Dream Simulations: Michael Kory, Omnibus Computer
Graphics Center Inc
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Robert F. Boyle
Art Director: Frank Richwood
Set Decorator: George R. Nelson
Set Designers: Les Gobruegge, Don High, Daniel Maltese,
Eugene C. Nollmann II
Property Master: Charles T. Tomlinson
Construction Coordinator: Philip Read
Construction Foreman: Sabino Ferullo
Production Illustrator: Thomas W. Lay Jr
Head Sculptor: Henry Alvarez
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Katherine Wooten
Transportation Coordinator: Eddie Lee Voelker
Transportation Captain: Dan Marrow
Animal Coordinator: Ray Berwick
Animal Handler: Steve Berens
Unit Publicist: Hilary Clark
LOCATIONS
Locations: Petaluma, California, USA
Location Managers: Michael Meehan, John R. Woodward
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Bill Couch
Stunts: Bradley Alan, Janet Brady, Jerry Brutsche, Doc D.
Charbonneau, Bill Couch Jr, Bob Herron, Lane Leavitt,
Patricia Madigan, Bennie Moore, Gary Morgan, Alex
Plasschaert, Art Scholl, Kim Washington, Mike Washlake,
Jesse Wayne
CASTING
Casting: Susan Arnold
Casting Associates: Junie Lowry-Johnson, Amanda Mackey
Johnson
Casting Assistant: Marcy Carriker
Extras Casting: Central Casting
CAST
Ethan Hawke (Ben Crandall)
River Phoenix (Wolfgang Muller)
Bobby Fite (Steve Jackson)
Bradley Gregg, Georg Olden, Chance Schwass (Steve
Jackson's gang)
Amanda Peterson (Lori Swenson)
Danny Nucci (nasty kid at school)
Jason Presson (Darren Woods)
Dana Ivey (Freda Müller)
Taliesin Jaffe (Ludwig Müller)
James Cromwell (Mr Müller)
Brooke Bundy (science teacher)
Tricia Bartholome (girl in classroom)
Eric Luke (Darren's teacher)
Robert Picardo (Starkiller / Wak / Wak and Neek's father)
Karen Mayo-Chandler (Starkiller's girlfriend)
Robert Boyle (Starkiller's girlfriend's father)
John P. Navin Jr, Mary Hillstead (couple at drive-in)
Simone Blue (snack bar girl)
Meshach Taylor (Gordon Miller)
Dick Miller (Charlie Drake)
Leslie Rickert (Neek)
Frank Welker, Fred Newman, Joan Gerber, Belinda Balaski,
Roger Behr, Roger Peltz, Neil Ross, Marilyn Schreffler,
Bill Ratner, Jane Kean, Bob Holt, Jay Stewart (special
vocal effects)
Mary Kay Place (Mrs Crandall)
PLOT SUMMARY
Ben Crandall and his
young friends have dreams of a strange circuit board
which the junior whizzkids manage to build. They discover
that it's a gift from aliens which, when built, turns out
to be an anti-gravity device. They use it to power a
home-made spaceship, the ThunderRoad, and set out to find
the aliens...
CAPSULE REVIEW
A disappointingly bland
film from Dante that lacks his usual bite and satirical
overtones. The kids are that horrible, unconvincing 80s
breed of screen brats and the aliens are so cartoonish as
to be utterly absurd. Younger audiences will probably get
a kick out of it - teh action is fairly reletnless and
the effects are excellent - but older and more cycnical
viewers will probably find it all a bit hard going.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Video Distributor: Paramount Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Paramount (LV 1676) CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: G
France
Rating: U
Sweden
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: U
USA
Rating: PG
AWARDS
1986
Young Artist Awards, USA
Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor: Motion Picture
(River Phoenix) - winner
Best Family Motion Picture: Adventure - nominated
Best Starring Performance by a Young Actor: Motion
Picture (Ethan Hawke) - nominated
Best Starring Performance by a Young Actress: Motion
Picture (Amanda Peterson) - nominated
TIMELINE
1985
July
12: USA - theatrical release
December
18: France - theatrical release
20: Sweden - theatrical release
1986
June
19: West Germany - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
The adventure begins in your own back yard
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Explorers - Ein Phantastisches
Abenteuer - German title
Exploradores - Spanish title
Tutkimusmatkailijat - Finnish title
Ürrandevú - Hungarian title
Badacze kosmosu - Polish title
Os Exploradores - Portugese title
Upptäckarna - Swedish title
LINKS
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956)
Frank Film (1973)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
This Island Earth (1954)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
City Limits no.272 / 273
(18 December 1986) p.39 (UK)
review
Films and Filming no.387
(December 1986) pp.32-33 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin
vol.54 no.636 (January 1987) pp.16-17 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Première December 1985
p.21 (France)
review (by Stella Molitor)
Starburst no.95 (1986)
pp.12-14 (UK)
review
Time Out no.852/853 (17
December 1986) pp.32-33 (UK)
review KEYWORDS aliens; dreams;
children; spaceships; space travel; anti-gravity;
helicopter; computers; hackers
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