Fred Savage, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater
Corey and Jimmy Woods are two brothers who are being separated due to their parents divorcing. Jimmy is a mentally unstable kid that has had problems ever since his sister died at a young age. One day...( read more
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Directed by: Todd Holland (II), James Halty, Todd Holland
Release Date: January 1, 1989
DVD Release Date: August 22, 2006
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Flixster Reviews (1,308)
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October 16, 2009Any movie made by Nintendo simply to sell a new video game gets an OK in my book!
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August 2, 2009Didn't remember much from childhood. Slater is a champ as always. Savage kinda annoying. "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." Haley was a fox.
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September 21, 2007OMG seriously how awesome was this movie as a kid? Especially when we were all obsessed with the NES, and power glove! Awww those were the days!!
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July 19, 2007Somewhere along the line, someone realized that it's nigh impossible to make a good movie based on a video game. So instead, they made a movie about the entire Nintendo Entertainment System, thereby capturing all the feel-good nostalgia associated with its hundreds of titles, but...( read more)
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September 20, 2009Yeah, it's totally implausible and it's basically just a commercial for the NES and Super Mario Bros. 3, but, well, I happen to like both of those things. And Fred Savage! I think if I had seen it when I was younger, I would've liked it a lot, so it's probably the nostalgia for m...( read more)
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September 5, 2009A retard is good video games so his brother takes him half-way across the country to play in a tournament. In pursuit are a bounty hunter and family members. They run into trouble by getting robbed a couple times and nearly beaten. For those of us who grew up playing NES during t...( read more)
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August 14, 2009It's basically Rain Man with kids and Nintendo. It's harmless though and not as bad as critics made it sound.
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