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.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.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.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Vince Trankina
- Tate
- (as Vincent Leahr)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaBeau Bridges and Christian Slater both admitted they had little to no interest in video games when they were cast. They played during filming, and became fans.
- GoofsAfter playing Double Dragon (1987) at the bus stop, Corey remarks that Jimmy scored 50,000 points. Jimmy played for less than two minutes. In real life, that would have to playing through almost the entire game, which would take much longer.
- Alternate versionsWhen shown on Nickelodeon, all profane language is cut, along with the "he touched my breast" line (and, of course, all subsequent references to that line.)
- SoundtracksYou Don't Get Much
Written by Kurt Neumann (as Kurt Newmann), Sammy Llanas (as Sam Llanas)
Performed by BoDeans (as Bo Deans)
Courtesy of Slash Records/Reprise Records
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
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this was a good movie!
i first saw the wizard back in 1990. i still like it today. to go with the video game plot there is a plot that's bigger than that in this movie.about a kid that almost never talks,and tries to leave on the road a lot.his half brother cares about him more than anybody else does. they both go on a road trip by walking,and sometimes hitching to cali.along the way they pick-up a young teenage girl.that gives them the idea that the kid is good at playing video games,and that they should go to los angeles to enter him in a video game contest if he wins they would'en wanna keep him in a home.the family of the kids brother is after him riding in a truck.also a private investagater hired by the kids mom is also going after him. it is an entertaining movie,and sometimes funny.all in all it's a really fun movie.i give it *** out of ****
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- 小鬼蹺家
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,278,900
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,142,525
- Dec 17, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $14,278,900
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