the year of 1985 have never be so sweet . but for some reason this film make it feel like it be the 90 instead of the 80 . three friend name ben crandall ( ethan hawke ) and darren wood ( jason presson ) and wolfgang muller ( river phoenix ) be all have strange dream . in each they see circuit and wire . what be these dream about . but that isn not the last of their trouble . along with be bully by steve jackson they have to build a spaceship . soon they go into space and meet two fantastic alien . the end come to fast . neek ( leslie rickert ) and wac ( robert picardo ) in up in deep trouble with their father ( robert picardo ) . mainly because they steal his new car . so we get boot out of the ship and the ship sink during the re entrée to earth .