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The Wizard

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1989-12-15

Runtime: 100 mins

Director: Todd Holland

Writer: David Chisholm

Spoken language: English, Italiano

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family

Original title: The Wizard

Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

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JPV852
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**
2020-03-14

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