Review: Life After the Navigator
No one’s going to call “Flight of the Navigator” a 5-star classic, but for a certain group of us who were kids in the mid to late 80s, it’s a film most of us recall fondly. As a 44 year-old I see the film as interesting and really quite strange, whereas I responded mostly to the comedy and adventure as a kid. It still works, just differently for me now. I’d also been vaguely following star Joey Cramer’s life after the film, which seemed to take some very dark turns. So when I heard about this 2021 documentary from director Lisa Downs, I just had to see it. It’s a film about a child star gone wrong, which seems beyond cliché at this point. However, five minutes in and I was already emotional. This guy seems to have gone through a lot over the years and even during the filming of this documentary you get the sense that it’s still a day-to-day struggle. There’s a reason why addicts don’t generally refer to themselves as former addicts even after kicking the habit. It’s always an ongoing ...