MovieChat Forums > Explorers (1985) Discussion > Help please!! ... I'm searching Gooniesq...

Help please!! ... I'm searching Gooniesque 80's film!!

posted 16 years ago by matias_celentano
29 replies | jump to latest

I saw it when I was just a kid...I just remember a group of kids, a basketball ball beating on a wall, a garden with labyrinthine form from where the kids "travel" to a forest, then I can remember a suspending bridge, and a dinosaur (made with stop motion) onto the forest, my last memento is a kind of bathtub forehead the sea (!)...
One detail more I can add: the biped dinosaur had a horn on his head...

I remember that I saw it about 1995 on the argentinian 13 TV channel, but I'm very sure that the film was done on the 80'... thanks...

I hope someone help me, sorry my bad english, I'm from Argentina.

[–] three-amigos 16 years ago

Tal vez es uno de estos:
"Labyrinth" with David Bowie and a young Jennifer Connelly.
"Legend" with a young(before Top Gun) Tom Cruise and Mia Sara.

[–] matias_celentano 16 years ago

Gracias Three-amigos, but I can say that the one I'm searching is not "Labyrinth" or "Legend" ... you can read others replies here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/board/thread/131324187?d=131324187&p=1#131324187

[–] Ozymandias-King-of-Kings 16 years ago

Could it be 'Mio in the Land of Faraway'?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093543/

[–] matias_celentano 16 years ago

Thanks King, But mio is not the film I'm looking for. Here are more clues:

I saw it when I was just a kid...I just remember a group of kids, a basketball ball beating on a wall, a garden with labyrinthine form from where the kids "travel" to a forest, then I can remember a suspending bridge, and a dinosaur (made with stop motion) onto the forest, my last memento is a kind of bathtub forehead the sea (!)...
One detail more I can add: the biped dinosaur had a horn on his head...

I remember that I saw it about 1995 on the argentinian 13 TV channel, but I'm very sure that the film was done on the 80'...

...As I can recall, were all male children ...

The maze was actually the garden of an elderly person (a woman I think), where they entered without permission, so they were crawling (crouching down)stealthily so as not to be seen ...

When I say "Bathtub forehead the sea" I mean some sort of bath, lavatory basin or small pool, where is one of the boys, this happens on a beach facing the sea and at the end of the movie...

Thanks again, and sorry my frengly.com english

[–] Rockman05 15 years ago

Neverending story?

[–] matias_celentano 15 years ago

no, the film I'm searching is not famous...

[–] Ozymandias-King-of-Kings 15 years ago

Maybe 'The Great Land of Small':

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093116/

[–] cvergados 15 years ago

i may have been the hugga bunch movie??

[–] BillyBarue 15 years ago

are you sure you weren't just watching Barney on acid?

[–] 15 years ago

[deleted]

[–] lostboy87 14 years ago

The beach bit at the end just made me think of little monsters staring Fred Savage!

"I mean i just wanted to leave,you know my apartment,meet a nice girl and now ive gotta die for it"

[–] matias_celentano 14 years ago

I wansn't on acid, as I can remember... thanks again... but, no no and no :( any other title?

[–] spacemonkey_fg 12 years ago

Sounds a bit like The Sandlot...

[–] dreamboynyc 14 years ago

Could it be possibly be The Secret Garden?

Join the Jordy Verrill fan page on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jordy-Verrill/120703971281881

[–] Syrius03 14 years ago

I remember it TOO!!!
Somehow (don't ask me why!!!) I think it was Canadian production...
Maybe it will help!
Yap... children, dinosaur, deeeep forest, fire, night, dinosaur...
Anyone???

[–] CamberwickGreen 13 years ago

It sounds like Troll, but I know it's not.

In Troll (1986) they go into the forest inside an older woman's (June Lockhart) apartment. But that was a boy and a girl, not all boys.

Other than that, google "Sleestak" and see if that's the biped dinosaur you are talking about.

[–] KrisTheMighty 12 years ago

My first thought was Time Bandits but I don't think that's right. Hmm...

[–] chouse1020 12 years ago

Yeah that's what the description reminded me of as well. Especially with the ship on top of the giant's head.

[–] jeycee76 12 years ago

Have you found this movie yet? It's killing me.

[–] Syrius03 11 years ago

No, did you?
If you did, PLEASE post about it.
Thanks and bye...

[–] matias_celentano 11 years ago

I have not found yet! :(