Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator (1986) is the Disney family sci-fi adventure you can watch online on iFILM. Twelve-year-old David Freeman vanishes in the woods one night and turns up eight years later without having aged a single day.

While his stunned family struggles to make sense of it, NASA recovers a crashed alien craft nearby, and the ship somehow responds to David's voice. Inside he meets a wisecracking onboard computer named Max, the very pilot who carried him across the galaxy and back. To reclaim the years he lost, the boy has to get that silver pod back into the sky and figure out what really happened to him. The cast includes Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright and a young Sarah Jessica Parker, with Paul Reubens voicing Max.

Directed by Randal Kleiser of Grease and The Blue Lagoon, the film is best remembered for its liquid-metal spaceship, whose morphing surface looked astonishing for the mid-1980s. Stream Flight of the Navigator (1986) online on iFILM.