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b"Joe Dante's Explorers\\xa0marks the big screen debuts of two future stars, Ethan Hawke\\xa0and River Phoenix, who, along with Jason Presson, make up the three young boys with a thirst for adventure and scientific exploration.\\xa0 In their dreams, the boys have a connection to a circuit board that they eventually use to build their own little hovering spacecraft, thanks to the help of a strange spherical energy capsule in which they place an abandoned tilt-a-whirl carriage that they use their computer to control.\\xa0 The makeshift spaceship gets them into all sorts of adventures, before culminating in a close encounter with aliens in outer space."