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The Wizard
Directed by
Todd Holland
PG
1989
1h 40m
Adventure
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Comedy
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6.1
29%
60%
6.1
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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.
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Cast of The Wizard
Luke Edwards
Jimmy
Vince Trankina
Tate
Wendy Phillips
Christine
Dea McAllister
Counselor
Sam McMurray
Bateman
Beau Bridges
Sam
Fred Savage
Corey
Christian Slater
Nick
Will Seltzer
Putnam
Roy Conrad
Bus Clerk
Jenny Lewis
Haley
Roderick Dexter
Trucker #1 / Wrecking Yard Man
Ray Bickel
Trucker #2
Chuck Skinner
Grease Monkey
W.K. Cowan
Salesman #1
William C. Thompson
Salesman #2
Sonny Dukes
Biker
T. Dan Hopkins
Old Navajo
Jason Oliver Lipsett
Tough Teen #1
Rowden Metzger
Tough Teen #2
The Wizard Ratings & Reviews
Toledo Blade
Tom Ford
The Wizard would have been better on the TV screen, where its programmed predictability would have more closely paralleled that of the games themselves.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
A shameless promotional piece. But compared to the McDonald's-pushing Mac and Me and the Coke-hawking Leonard Part 6, The Wizard almost looks as exceptional as The Wizard of Oz by comparison.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Filmmaker Todd Holland has infused The Wizard with a very deliberate, very gentle sort of feel that mostly works...
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
An ad for video games that makes video games look like a peyote hallucination.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
A solid and entertaining road film that is never cloying or abundantly sweet.
TV Guide
The runaways' actions provide anything but responsible models for the children who make up the film's target audience, and the likable cast flails against the rampant idiocy and gross commercialism.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
I love "The Wizard. It's so bad.
Filmcritic.com
Jesse Hassenger
a unique exercise in crappy '80s moviemaking %u2013 which has now become a unique exercise in crappy '80s nostalgia.
Moviehole
Caffeinated Clint
Lots of fun
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Video-addicted kids may well find this exciting, but for anyone old enough to stay out later than 9 P.M. it's a distinct bore.
Juicy Cerebellum
Alex Sandell
This movie sucks so bad, I didn't even like it in the 80s.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It was only after the three kids arrived safely at the championships that I began to question the ethics of the film, which is, among other things, a thinly disguised commercial for Nintendo video games and the Universal studio tour.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Chris Hicks
Granted, Nintendo has cornered the video game market, and all the kids in the audience seemed to know each game as it appeared on the screen, but why pander to that Saturday morning commercial television sensibility?
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Hollywood hucksters, zap them, have borrowed from Japanese game-pushers in this shameless attempt to sucker America's children.
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