Flight of the Navigator (1986) & Slaughterhouse-Five (1972): Unexpected Journeys

In this episode of Journey Through Sci-Fi, we explore two very different takes on time travel.

First we discuss Flight of the Navigator (1986), the family sci-fi adventure about a boy who returns to Earth eight years after disappearing — without having aged.

Then we explore Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), the adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel about a man who becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences his life out of sequence.

Together these films show how science fiction can play with the nature of time itself — from the physics of space travel to the philosophical idea that all moments may exist at once.

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