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Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker, Michael Burton, and Phil Joanou. It stars Joey Cramer as David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy, who is abducted by an alien spaceship and transported from 1978 to 1986.
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David is Bill and Helen Freeman's older son. He enjoys his usual routine of playing frisbee with their dog, Bruiser, whom he trains for the Frisbee Championship, school, and hanging out with his friends. His younger brother, Jeff, was born when he was four and he always enjoys teasing him which results in a lot of quarreling to which their parents ...
It is July 4, 1978, and David enters Bruiser in a dog frisbee competition which he loses. Jeff rudely remarks that he will never learn to catch one, but David is certain that he will eventually. The Freemans decide to have some burgers for dinner to celebrate the holiday. After dropping Jeff off at the Johnsons' house, they go home with David quietly saying hello to a schoolmate named Jennifer. He asks Bill for advice so he tells him that he has to take a chance using the term, "If you want to learn to swim, you just have to jump in the water."
Later, while David is feeding Bruiser, Helen asks him to go to the woods to pick up Jeff, so he goes, taking Bruiser with him. While looking for Jeff, he gets separated from Bruiser, and Jeff gives him a fright by jumping out of a tree. Furious, he tries to chase him but hears Bruiser barking in the distance. He finds him near a huge ravine. As he leans over to take a closer look, he loses his balance and falls into it, knocking himself unconscious. He awakes after what seems like a few moments and after climbing out of the ravine, returns home calling to Bruiser whom he thinks is still there. He goes to his house and is amazed to see an elderly woman named Janet Howard answer the door. He rushes inside, finding everything different with even his bedroom now a study where Janet's husband, Larry, is listening to music. Larry assures David that no one will hurt him, and asks for his name and address. He finally breaks down and cries, asking for his parents. Larry tells Janet to call the police.
David is escorted to the police station, where they try to find out who he is. A police lieutenant thinks something is amiss when he searches missing child posters and finds one that reads "David Scott Freeman" that was published in 1978, with the picture identical to the child they are interrogating. The lieutenant does a background check on the Freemans and finds their current residence. As he is taking David to the new home. he tries to overcome suspicions by asking David who is the President of the United States. When David replies Jimmy Carter, he and another law enforcement officer know something is amiss. They take him to his family's new house, and he is surprised to find that they have aged with even Bruiser looking different. It is all too much for him, and he faints.
David wakes up in the hospital, with himself asking what is happening. He is even more astonished to see that Jeff is now 16. He tells him that it is 1986 and he should be 20 years old by now. He shows him a lost and found flyer of him stating his name, age, and every other description. He continues to tell him what happened after he went missing. Their parents made him stick the flyer on every telephone pole and tree every Saturday and refused to believe that he was dead. Bill comes in and tells a scared David that he has to stay in the hospital because they need to find out where he had been for the last eight years, and tests would be conducted to help him remember. He keeps hearing someone calling him, and at first, he thinks he's dreaming. The next morning, he is talking to a nurse about what happened to him that very night. He recalls everything, but the doctors and his family see that his brain is giving visual patterns of unusual alien intelligence.
As the Freemans are getting ready to go home, they are visited by the lead NASA scientist, Dr. Louis Faraday, who had captured a ship very similar to the one in David's thoughts and had noticed the images from his head at the lab. He asks him to help him sort out this mystery, which he refuses at first, but after hearing that Dr. Faraday only needs 48 hours to give him the truth of where he has been for the past eight years, why he can't remember, the unusual brain activity, and why he hasn't aged, he eventually agrees and goes with him to the NASA base, where he hears the voice calling him again.
Dr. Faraday shows David his room filled with lots of toys and gives him a special exclusive NASA cap. Then he locks him in with the control operated door. He turns on the TV and is surprised by the arrival of a robot named R.A.L.F. (Robotic Assistant Labor Facilitator) and his controller, Carolyn McAdams. They become good friends with David, who is amazed and disappointed that his favorite show, Starsky and Hutch, has been canceled. They now show music videos, and Coke is now in several types.
Nov 10, 2022 · You may remember Joey Cramer from the 1986 movie Flight of the Navigator. He played David, a young boy who is abducted by aliens and then returned to Earth...
David Scott Freeman : It's like a bad dream. David : How come "Starsky & Hutch" isn't on? Carolyn McAdams : That show was canceled a long time ago.
The official website of actor JOEY CRAMER, best known for his breakthrough role as David Scott Freeman in Disney's FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR.
The story begins in 1978 with twelve-year-old David Freeman, a happy all-American kid who lives with his loving parents and typically bratty eight-year-old brother Jeff. One night he sets off into the woods to look for Jeff only to be knocked unconscious when he falls from a ravine.
