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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is a tween sci-fi film released in 1985.
Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) keeps having a dream about traveling over a circuit board. He then draws it and shows it to his brainy friend [[Geek|Wolfgang]], who builds the board which is able to create a force field bubble. The two boys, along with help from their new tough friend Darren, decide to build a spaceship out of old amusement park ride parts that when used with their new found technology gives them the ability to travel into space.▼
▲Sci-fi nut Ben Crandall ([[Ethan Hawke]]) keeps having a dream about
After flying around the neighbourhood, their computer is taken over by a remote entity and the ship is guided to meet an alien spacecraft. There they meet two friendly aliens, Wak and Neek, who have been sending the dreams in the hope of meeting some inhabitants of Earth. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensues]] as the kids find their hosts' entire grasp of Earth culture and language came from watching Earth TV - and Wak seems to be especially fond of US game shows.
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** Well, Wolfgang and Ben are. Darren seems to be along mostly because he finds their activities preferable to staying home with his drunken, abusive father.
* [[Author Filibuster]]: The movie jarringly shifts from goofy alien TV-talk antics to berating humanity for making so many movies about waging war on aliens. Making it worse is that it's not even clear whether the writer was bitching that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]] or just complaining that there wasn't more idealistic alien encounter fiction.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: The cover blurb on the 2004 DVD name-drops Hawke and Phoenix but seems to forget there was a third co-star with the same amount of screen time.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: And how.
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Wolfgang.
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* [[Interspecies Friendship]]: The goal of the aliens, basically.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: What Neek seems to want with Wolfgang...
* [[Jerkass]]: The {{spoiler|father alien. Somewhat justified, considering what his kids have just done}}.
* [[The Mothership]]
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Wolfgang apparently didn't keep any of the paper drawings of the circuit or make any backups of the computer programs... once the program is cleared from the computer on the Thunder Road and it crashes, no one thinks to just build another one. (Of course theoretically it might be that Wolfgang couldn't afford a new computer for awhile, they weren't exactly cheap at the time.)
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]: Pretty much how the aliens pick up stuff about Earth.
* [[Puppy Love]]: Ben is just a hair too old for his crush on Lori to be [[Precocious Crush|precocious]].
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Ben's
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many many. The movie is littered with them, mostly as a result of the aliens' absorption of Earth culture, starting with Wolfgang's mouse [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]], and [[Bruce Springsteen|the ''Thunder Road'']].
* [[Space Pirates]]: The explanation given by Wak for {{spoiler|the aliens' father's}} ship engulfing theirs.
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