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Ĭan you help? Particularly with The School, Wolfgang's House etc ? Please Update Us I don't recognize the rest of the locations in the movie, but pretty sure of the Aviation High School being the location which was also sold to and torn down by an investment group. It opened in the mid 50s and closed in 1982.
#Explorers 1985 movie movie#
The school scenes in the first part of the movie appear to be that of my old high school known as Aviation High School in Redondo Beach, California. This same location was used in the 1983 movie "Blue Thunder" when Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider RIP) was directing his girlfriend to pick up the incriminating tape. It is (or was) located at 1100 W Alameda in Burbank, CA. The Pickwick Drive-In Theater was apparently used as the drive-in. The airport on Adobe Road, was used for a rural setting. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. With a terrific young cast (including Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix) and some typically.
#Explorers 1985 movie series#
Ben and his friends also happen to be geniuses who are pursuing a series of innovative breakthroughs that. Ben Crandall and his friends are obsessed with the idea of alien life in outer space.

The Riverfront at the foot of Western Avenue was also used. A boy obsessed with 50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. Get Explorers DVD and Blu-ray release date, trailer and movie stats. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship. Google Mapįilmed in and around Petaluma, Sonoma County, CA using such locations as West Petaluma creek bed, La Cresta Drive, Houses at 9 D Street, G Street, Hillsides of west Petaluma overlooking the city and the Petaluma River. The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists.

These scenes were actually shot at A Private Residence, located in Petaluma, N.

After laboring through this movie, you'll most likely agree it deserved no Academy Awards and was, in fact, nominated for none.Wanna see the real life filming location used for Lori's (Amanda Peterson's) House in the movie? The film is rated PG and is 109 minutes long. Photos of these locations will be included in an upcoming edition of this page.Įxplorers, which was rated two stars by Ebert, is widely available on videotape and DVD. There is also a runaway Tilt-A-Whirl scene on Martha Street. The film uses residental locations at 1000 and 990 D Street, as well as an ancient oak tree in the hills above Petaluma past the top of English Street. Explorers Movie Trailer (Released 1985) All rights of footage & soundtrack belong to Paramount Pictures.(THIS IS A FAN EDITED MOVIE TRAILER)(More Information. This is the cinematic equivalent to the chimp that learned to play chess and won a gumball". It begins with three brainy kids figuring out a way to conquer gravity and fly to the stars, and it ends with a bunch of sideshow aliens who repeat material they've learned by watching television.
#Explorers 1985 movie full#
Film Critic Roger Ebert summed it up best, "This movie takes a deep breath and plunges headlong into the unknown, and belly-flops into a universe full of Jell-O. In 1985, actors River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke came to Petaluma to film the absurd science fiction movie Explorers.
