It took a gay director to make an 80s sci-fi classic
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.The outpouring of enthusiasm over last week’s Fright Night entry in Screen Gems continues to surprise us.
With that in mind, we hereby offer up another cult classic of the 80s era…Flight of the Navigator debuted on movie screens in 1986, and despite good reviews, didn’t make much of an impact at the box office.
The film tells the story of David (Joey Cramer), an All-American kid who slips and falls into a ditch one day…and wakes up eight years later.
He hasn’t aged, but his family sure has: his younger brother is now a robust teen, and his parents (Veronica Cartwright and Cliff DeYoung) have gone prematurely grey with worry.
