Themes: High School Life, Teachers and Students, Experiments Gone Awry
Main Cast: John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Dennis Hopper
Release Year: 1985
Country: US
Run Time: 94 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
In this sci-fi comedy, a high school hood, Michael Harlan, procrastinates on his science project until the day before it is due. Hastily seeking to rectify his predicament, the youth begins scouring an abandoned military dump and runs across a strange looking machine with a large crystal orb. He has no idea that it belonged to a shot down alien space craft and that it contains not only the power to generate time warps, it can also destroy the world. If he did, he might not have turned it on. Unfortunately, he does activate it and sends his entire class back in time. The special effects are especially notable, as the kids roam Earth from the dawn of time, to the future. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Barry Corbin - Lew Harlan; Ann Wedgeworth - Dolores; Richard Masur - Detective Isadore Nulty; Robert Beer - Dwight D. Eisenhower; Michael Berryman - Mutant No. 1; Jackson Bostwick - Sentry; Noel Conlon - Secret Service Agent; Robert DoQui - Desk Sergeant; Beau Dremann - Matusky; Jack O'Leary - Sentry at Air Force Guardhouse; Candace Silvers - Irene; Pat Simmons - Crystal; Pamela Springsteen - Hall Monitor, Ellie's Friend; Frank Welker - Alien Voices; Chuck Hemingway - Coy; Danielle von Zerneck - Ellie Sawyer; Jaime Alba - Jock No. 3; Robin Allyn - Ellie's Friend; Vincent Barbour - Jock No. 2; Hank Calia - Neanderthal Man; Ann Culotta - Trucker's Wife; Elven Havard - Fireman; Matt Hoelscher - Preppie; Linda Hoy - Librarian; Clare Peck - Policewoman; Scott Bailey Spangler - Guard No. 2 at Air Force Guardhouse; John Vidor - Jock No. 1; Cameron Young - General's Aide; John Carter - General; Joel Harrison - Wino
Credit
John Mansbridge - Art Director, Betsy Jones - Costume Designer, Jonathan Betuel - Director, C. Timothy O'Meara - Editor, Peter Bernstein - Composer (Music Score), Michael Colina - Songwriter, Nick Gilder - Songwriter, Jeff Gordon - Songwriter, Bob Held - Songwriter, Bill Heller - Songwriter, Matthew Hill - Songwriter, Holly Knight - Songwriter, Joe McDonald - Songwriter, Robert J. Schiffer - Makeup, David Snyder - Production Designer, David M. Walsh - Cinematographer, Jonathan Taplin - Producer, Jerry Wunderlich - Set Designer, John Scheele - Special Effects, Jonathan Betuel - Screenwriter
