What is it? The refurbished remnant of an alien spacecraft, the rest of which was destroyed by personal order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the engine of which has collected dust in an Air Force graveyard since 1957. When hooked up to a car battery or plugged into an electrical outlet, it creates a time warp, "a crossroads of time and space." Or in other words, anything goes: dinosaurs, Viet Cong, mutants from the future. Dennis Hopper is well cast as the science teacher and nostalgic Sixties radical. But the two principal teenagers — John Stockwell, cool to within a few degrees of death, and Fisher Stevens, a Brooklynese wiseguy — are each in their separate ways insufferable. Written and directed by Jonathan Betuel. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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