At school, Ben develops a crush on Lori Swenson ( Amanda Peterson), but he isn't sure whether it's mutual. Ben shows the sketches to his friend, child prodigy Wolfgang Muller ( River Phoenix).
Every night, upon waking from the dream, he draws the circuit board. Ben Crandall ( Ethan Hawke) is a young teenage boy living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., who experience vivid dreams about flying through clouds and over a vast, city-like circuit board, usually after falling asleep watching 1950s sci-fi movies ( The War of the Worlds (1953) is a favorite).The synopsis below may give away important plot points. With the help of their new friend Darren Woods, they create a homemade spacecraft and embark on a secret adventure to another galaxy where they find that things are not always as different as they seem. But one night he has a vivid dream of flying over a space-like circuit board and shares his visions with his best friend Wolfgang Muller, a young scientific genius who is able to translate his dreams into a complex computer program that actually works. Ben Crandall is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night B monster movies, pouring over comic books, and playing Galaga in the confines of his bedroom. This space adventure stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. A boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend.
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