You've gotta remember this one. I must have seen this film ten times over the years...of course it got more and more ropey with every watch, but for the time 1986 and given my infatuation with space, this was the film to love.
Plot: Kids go to Space Camp, NASA's own junior space program, wherein a host of kids get to play around for the summer on various NASA training systems and machines. One day, the geeky little, chubby kid (Max) makes friends with Jinx, a robot that NASA never got around to using. One day Jinx hears a bullied Max wishing out loud that he were in space. Jinx, being rather clever, decides to make that happen, of course it helps that a launch is scheduled and he puts em on the rota to have a butchers at the real shuttle. Then...guess what happens.
Truly, I loved this film. There's all manner of joy to be held from placing yourself in the kid's shoes and thrusting off into the cosmos.
Sadly, the film bombed at the box office. Probably didn't help that The Challenger mission disaster happened the same year the film was released.
Budget: $20,000,000
Gross: $9,697,739
Fun Fact: The annoying kid, that was Joaquin Phoenix. Also starred, Kelly Preston (Twins, Battlefield Earth), Tom Skerritt (Top Gun), Terry O'Quinn (Lost, West Wing), Kate Capshaw (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) and Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Howard the Duck).
Plot: Kids go to Space Camp, NASA's own junior space program, wherein a host of kids get to play around for the summer on various NASA training systems and machines. One day, the geeky little, chubby kid (Max) makes friends with Jinx, a robot that NASA never got around to using. One day Jinx hears a bullied Max wishing out loud that he were in space. Jinx, being rather clever, decides to make that happen, of course it helps that a launch is scheduled and he puts em on the rota to have a butchers at the real shuttle. Then...guess what happens.
Truly, I loved this film. There's all manner of joy to be held from placing yourself in the kid's shoes and thrusting off into the cosmos.
Sadly, the film bombed at the box office. Probably didn't help that The Challenger mission disaster happened the same year the film was released.
Budget: $20,000,000
Gross: $9,697,739
Fun Fact: The annoying kid, that was Joaquin Phoenix. Also starred, Kelly Preston (Twins, Battlefield Earth), Tom Skerritt (Top Gun), Terry O'Quinn (Lost, West Wing), Kate Capshaw (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) and Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Howard the Duck).
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