Explorers

Explorers is a UK VHS release by CIC Video and Paramount on 16th November 1987 and 7th October 1988. It got re-released by CIC, Paramount, Pocket Money Video, PolyGram Video and Karussell on 15th March 1993. It got re-released by Paramount, CIC, PolyGram Video and Karussell on 16th May 1994.

Description[]

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF 'GREMLINS'

SOMEONE OUT THERE IS CALLING US....

Ben Crandall is an ordinary young boy until he has an extraordinary dream that changes his life. Wolfgang Muller is the whizkid next door, and Darren Woods is just a boy in need of an adventure.

Join the young Explorers as they make an amazing discovery that takes them on a journey into space. To their own astonishment and delight, the adventure which begins in their own backyard may never end....for light years above the earth, someone who has been calling them since the beginning..!

'Explorers'...a film from which dreams are made!

Cast[]

Ethan Hawke as Ben Crandall
River Phoenix as Wolfgang Müller
Jason Presson as Darren Woods
Amanda Peterson as Lori Swenson
Bobby Fite as Steve Jackson
Bradley Gregg as Steve Jackson's gang member
Georg Olden as Steve Jackson's gang member
Chance Schwass as Steve Jackson's gang member
Danny Nucci as Steve Jackson's gang member
Dana Ivey as Mrs. Müller
Taliesin Jaffe as Ludwig Müller
James Cromwell as Mr. Müller
Brooke Bundy as Science teacher
Eric Luke as Darren's teacher
Robert Picardo as Starkiller / Wak / Wak and Neek's father
Leslie Rickert as Neek
Karen Mayo-Chandler as Carla, Starkiller's girlfriend
Robert F. Boyle as Carla's father
Dick Miller as Charlie Drake
Meshach Taylor as Gordon Miller
Mary Kay Place as Mrs. Crandall

Special vocal effects are provided by Belinda Balaski, Roger Behr, Joanie Gerber, Robert Holt, Jane Kean, Fred Newman, Roger Peltz, Neil Ross, Bill Ratner, Marilyn Schreffler, Jay Stewart, and Frank Welker.

Credits[]

Credits in Back Cover[]

Opening (1994 Re-Release)[]

CIC Video Warning Screen (1991-1996)
The Paramount Pictures Big Screen, Best Sellers trailer from 1993 with clips of "Top Gun", "Grease", "Ghost", "The Godfather Part I, Part II and Part III", "Apocalypse Now", "Fatal Attraction", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "An Officer and a Gentleman", "The Untouchables" and "Zulu".
Apocalypse Now Trailer
Grease Trailer
Zulu Trailer
Scrooged Trailer
BBFC U Card (1985-1997)
Paramount Pictures Ident (1975-1986)
Start Of Explorers (1985)

Closing (1994 Re-Release)[]

End of Explorers (1985)
Closing Credits Film
CIC Video Warning Scroll

Trailers and info[]

Rental 1987 Re-release[]

1994 Re-Release[]

The Paramount Pictures Big Screen, Best Sellers trailer from 1993 with clips of "Top Gun", "Grease", "Ghost", "The Godfather Part I, Part II and Part III", "Fatal Attraction", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "An Officer and a Gentleman", "The Untouchables" and "Zulu".
Apocalypse Now
Grease
Zulu
Scrooged