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The Last Starfighter
Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter and one day he finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.
1 November 1939, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
1 May 1919, Wexford, Ireland
15 February 1917, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
18 July 1938, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
8 October 1959, Missouri, USA
29 July 1972, Burbank, California, USA
28 September 1973, Fullerton, California, USA
May 24, 2009
the rousing kind of kid flick that inspires ten-year-old boys to grab broomsticks, storm the neighborhood hill, and go nuts on pretend aliens with ridiculous faux karate moves.
August 26, 2009
One of the few successful Spielberg clones, administering the usual routine of aliens and mouth-agape wonder with friendly determination and a perfect, just perfect, game boy screenwriting hook.
March 28, 2003
If you're going to shamelessly rip off Star Wars, make sure you do it with as much spirit as this film.
April 13, 2003
Overlooked sci-fi tale. Great fun.
August 12, 2014
It embraces its derivativeness and runs with it to deliver a fun kids space opera that's simple, but exciting.
February 02, 2003
A cult classic long overdue its proper respect!
March 02, 2011
full of 80s cheese, but for someone like me who grew up with this kind of stuff, it was the perfect escape
August 12, 2009
Charmingly hokey...takes the suburban-working-class-folks-meet-space-aliens paradigm of early Spielberg and marries it to Lucas' Star Wars. [Blu-ray]
June 24, 2006
Great fun, with some truly comical moments; a must for pulp-heads and video-junkies.
February 21, 2008
Definite "Star Wars" influenced, this trailer park adventure takes off, succeeds on own.