# does anyone know the name of this movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980 "2003-04-29T19:43:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShadiRoxan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980/1 "2003-04-29T19:43:03Z")
Okay, '80s movie. Kid gets abducted by an alien spacecraft. Spacecraft looks something like a cross between a football and the headgear worn in the movie Predator. Eventually gets returned, but due to flying around at near light speed about 15 years have passed back on earth. Memorable Scenes: All the alien “pets” on the ship dancing to the Beach Boys. Ship stops at a remote intersection in California so the kid can ask for directions back to his hometown. Kid falls into a coma and some sort of EEG printout makes the outline of the spacecraft. Any guesses? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980/2 "2003-04-29T19:46:12Z")
Sounds like ‘Flight of the Navigator’. Pee Wee Herman as the voice of the ship. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980/3 "2003-04-29T19:47:31Z")
Here’s the link: [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091059](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091059) ---
**Author:** ![ShadiRoxan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980/4 "2003-04-29T20:38:13Z")
That’s the one, thanks ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980/5 "2003-04-29T22:36:22Z")
On any other board, three minutes to a correct answer would be some kind of record. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980/6 "2003-04-30T00:17:27Z")
Not here. Boy, I love this place. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-the-name-of-this-movie/171980/7 "2003-04-30T03:36:50Z")
I haven’t thought about that movie in years, but I seem to recall that I rather liked it in my younger days. It’s got the scene were the protagonist asks for a Coke and is confronted by Cherry Coke, Coke II, regular Coke, Diet Coke and probably a couple others, doesn’t it? If not, what the hell am I thinking of?