The Blue Yonder is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film

Adventure film

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. It was directed by Mark Rosman

Mark Rosman

Mark Rosman is an American film director, television director and screenwriter.- Background :Rosman is the son of a Beverly Hills dermatologist. He has a brother, a lawyer, and a sister. After graduating from Beverly Hills High School, Rosman went to UCLA but left after two years when he wasn't...

, written by Mark Rosman, produced by Annette Handley, and starred Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar...

, Huckleberry Fox, Art Carney

Art Carney

Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners....

, Dennis Lipscomb

Dennis Lipscomb

Dennis Lipscomb is an American actor.Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City . From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Eyes of Fire , WarGames , The Day After , A Soldier's Story , Amazing Grace and Chuck , Sister, Sister , The...

 and Joe Flood. The film tells the story of Jonathan Knicks (Fox), a 11 year old who is accidentally sent back in time

Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

 from 1985 to 1927 by a time machine built by his neighbor, Henry Coogan (Carney). There Jonathan meets his grandfather, Max (Coyote), and must find a way to prevent Max's fatal attempt at a solo trans-Atlantic flight.

Cast

• Peter Coyote
  Peter Coyote
  Peter Coyote is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar...
  
  *...Max Knickerbocker
• Huckleberry Fox...Jonathan Knicks
• Art Carney
  Art Carney
  Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners....
  
  ...Henry Coogan
• Dennis Lipscomb
  Dennis Lipscomb
  Dennis Lipscomb is an American actor.Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City . From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Eyes of Fire , WarGames , The Day After , A Soldier's Story , Amazing Grace and Chuck , Sister, Sister , The...
  
  ...Finch
• Joe Flood...Leary
• Mittie Smith...Helen Knickerbocker
• Frank Simons...Young Coogan
• Stu Klitsner...Mr. Knicks
• Morgan Upton...Police Captain
• Bennett Cale...Dooley
• Cyril Clayton...Drunk
• Charles Adams
  Charles Adams
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  ...News Vendor
• Gretchen Grant...Mrs. Knicks