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Joe Dante’s sci-fi family film Explorers didn’t get a fair shake when it was released in 1985. Hoping for a summer blockbuster, Paramount executives pushed up the film’s scheduled release date from late August to mid-July and told Dante to just use the rough cut he submitted to the studio that spring. The results were predictably disastrous—Explorers quickly disappeared from theaters after an abysmal opening weekend. But the film survives as a minor cult classic, thanks to Dante’s reputation and the fact that it marked the feature debuts of both Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix.
