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''Flight of the Navigator'' is a 1986 comic science fiction film directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker and Michael Burton, about David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spaceship and finds himself caught in a world that has changed around him. The film's producers initially sent the project to Walt Disney Pictures in 1984, but the studio was unable to approve it and it was sent to Producers Sales Organization, which made a deal with Disney to distribute it in the United States. It was partially shot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Norway, it being a co-production with Norwegian company ''Viking Film''. ==Plot== The film follows David Scott Freeman (Joey Cramer), a 12-year-old boy living in Florida in 1978. David has a strained relationship with his younger brother Jeff. On the night of July 4, at his mother's insistence, David walks through the woods to escort Jeff home from a friend's house. On the way, his dog alerts him to something down in a ravine. When David goes to investigate, he falls into the ravine and is knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, he returns to his house and finds that his family no longer lives there. The new owners call the police, who find a missing person report made about David by his parents. The police review their database and find that David was declared legally dead. The police reunite him with his family, who are overcome with joy but have since aged substantially. When they greet David, he faints. Elsewhere, an alien spaceship has crashed into an electrical tower and is rendered inert. NASA agents confiscate it and explain to police that it is a human experimental space laboratory. They bring it to their own hangar and discover that it is inaccessible from the outside. Meanwhile, David is taken to the hospital for observation. He learns that it is now 1986, 8 years later; his parents are middle-aged, and his brother (who now goes by Jeffrey) is 16. Testing to determine what happened to him in the ravine reveals mental images of the alien spaceship and communication in a foreign language. The lead doctor alerts NASA. David is taken to a research facility is and locked away as a "national security risk". In confinement, he befriends Carolyn McAdams (Sarah Jessica Parker), the charming intern in charge of his upkeep, as well as a robotic assistant named R.A.L.F. Dr. Louis Faraday (Howard Hesseman) runs his own memory tests on David and finds his mind filled with alien technical manuals and star charts covering expanses of the galaxy far exceeding anything humans have recorded. David's subconscious mind tells the scientists that he was taken to a planet called Phaelon, 560 light-years away, in just over 4.4 hours. They realize that David has experienced time dilation as a result of having traveled near the speed of light, explaining why eight years have passed on Earth, but not for him. David is unable to comprehend what Faraday is telling him and flees the room, leaving Faraday muttering that 48 hours will be insufficient to finish his investigation. Carolyn informs him about the schedule for him to stay all week, and he tells her to alert his family. The next morning, the ship telepathically contacts David, and tells him to hide in the R.A.L.F robot sent to his room, which takes him to the hangar where it is being held. He boards the ship, and its robotic commander, (voiced by Paul Reubens, credited as Paul Mall), who refers to David as "Navigator," flies the ship out of the hangar with David on board. The ship's artificial intelligence, who refers to itself as a "Trimaxion Drone Ship" ("Max" for short), tells David that its mission was to travel the galaxy, collect biological specimens, take them to Phaelon for analysis, and then return them to their homes. Phaelon's scientists discovered humans only use 10% of their brain and, as an experiment, filled the remainder of his with miscellaneous information, including all of the star charts discovered by Phaelon's astronomers, including the information that leaked from his brain. Max then returned him to Earth, but didn't take him back to his own time, having determined that a human would be unlikely to survive a trip back in time. Before leaving Earth, Max accidentally crashed the ship, erasing all the computer's star charts and data. Therefore, Max needs the information in David's brain to return home. Max programs the ship for a mind transfer, and David is shown the eight remaining alien specimens on board, and bonds with a "Puckmaren", a tiny bat-like alien. Puckmaren is the last of his kind after a comet destroyed his planet. Max performs a mind transfer on David to reacquire the star charts, but in the process also contracts human emotional attributes, which results in him speaking just like Pee-Wee Herman, he even laughs like him. He and David start bickering, like David and Jeff always did. This comes to a head when Max shuts down and allows the ship to fall from the sky, taunting David as he struggles to gain control. Eventually controlling the ship, David wanders Earth looking for Fort Lauderdale, triggering several UFO reports in many cities, including Tokyo. In the meantime, Carolyn has made contact with his family and told them about his escape in the ship; as a result, Faraday has them put under house arrest and has Carolyn transported to the facility. David arrives at a gas station in the Florida Keys. The gas station owner and the children of a family at the gas station stare at the ship. David asks the owner for money and telephones Jeffrey to ask for a signal from their new house so that he can find it. When the ship leaves, the whole family watches it and the owner remarks, "He just said he wanted to phone home," an homage to the film E.T.. David reaches Fort Lauderdale and Jeffrey sets off fireworks to signal his brother. David homes in on them, but NASA agents, having tracked the ship's every move, get there first. David, fearing that he would be institutionalized for life if he remained in 1986, orders Max to return him to 1978, regardless of the risk to his life. David wakes up in the ravine, walks home, and finds everything as he left it. David watches Max flash the sky against the backdrop of fireworks, with the specimens and Max laughing. Max says "See you later, Navigator!" telepathically to David and the film closes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flight of the Navigator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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