guest from the future tell a fascinating story of time travel and friendship and battle of good and evil all with a small budget and child actor and and few special effect . something for spielberg and lucas to learn from . while ) a sixth grader kolya nick gerasimov find a time machine in the basement of a decrepit building and travel 100 year into the future . he discover a near perfect and utopian society where robot play guitar and write poetry and everyone be kind to each other and people enjoy everything technology have to offer . alice be the daughter of a prominent scientist who invent a device call mielophone that allow to read mind of human and animal . the device can be put to both good and bad use and depend on whose hand it fall into . when two evil space pirate from saturn who want to rule the universe attempt to steal mielophone and it fall into the hand of 20th century school boy nick . with the pirate hot on his track and he travel back to his time and follow by the pirate and and alice . chaos and confusion and funny situation follow a the luckless pirate try to blend in with the earthling . alice enrolls in the same school nick go to and demonstrate superhuman ability in pe class . the catch be and alice doesn not know what nick look like and while the pirate do . also and the pirate be able to change their appearance and turn literally into anyone . ( hmm and i wonder if this be where james cameron get the idea for terminator . ) who get to nick and mielophone first . excellent plot and non stop adventure and and great soundtrack . i wish hollywood make kid movie like this one .