The Wizard 1989

It's more than a game...it's the chance of a lifetime.

6.03 / 10   296 vote(s)
PG
Adventure Comedy Drama Family

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.

Release Date 1989-12-15
Runtime 1h 40m
Directors Todd Holland, Robert D. Yeoman, Jerry Ketcham, David D'Ovidio, James M. Halty, Craig Hosking, Chuck Wentworth
Producers David Chisholm, Ken Topolsky, Lindsley Parsons Jr., Daniel Schneider
Writer David Chisholm

Has some heart at times, almost ruined by the blatant and, hate to use this word, cringe-worthy product placement from Hostess to Nintendo to Universal Studios (which makes sense since this was one of their movies). The acting and writing is bad and I'm not quite sure who this movie was made for (there is a joke about a teenage girl accusing a grown man of grabbing her breast) but there are some funny bad moments. 2.75/5

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