River's note to a fan

It's such a cute cute film with a cute cast (I don't think someday I will call Ethan Hawke cute, but he's really cute in this film ^^). Watching it made me feel like I was dreaming the dreams of Ben, of every kid in the world. Considering it's a 1985 film, Exploreres is a really good kid movie. Sadly that with nowaday technology, kids will not like this film much.

I was fascinated by the young actors.

A decent film of 80s with great performance of Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix. I can't believe they were that old (60) and that young (17) respectively in this film.

Good plot with wonderful acting of Christine Lahti and River Phoenix.

River Phoenix is fascinating... It's the first film I watch of him but he totally amazes me. He doesn't own every scene he appears, he doesn't make you forget about other characters. He just plays Mike Waters the way Mike should be, subtle, always longing for love and above all, a home. Mike Waters could easily be my favouite film charater (and considering I rarely like any character from films, that counts for something). I ache for Mike throughout this film, from the moment he asks for $10 more, when he confesses to Scott and after all, when all he has is himself, Idaho and a never-ending road...

This film gives me a strange feeling. I don't like it much from the first watch, but it slowly grew on me... Besides, it features the most wonderful performance of River Phoenix, which enough to keeps me coming back over and over again... However, I still wish for a happy ending, at least for a beautiful creature like Mike Waters...

Nice film. Good music. Happy ending. That's it.