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Joysticks (1983)When a top local businessman and his two bumbling nephews try to shut down the town's only video arcade, arcade employees and patrons fight back. Director:Greydon Clark |
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Title: Joysticks (1983)
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Cast
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Joseph Rutter
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Leif Green | ... |
Eugene Groebe
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Jim Greenleaf | ... |
Jonathan Andrew McDorfus
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Jefferson Bailey
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King Vidiot
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| Corinne Bohrer | ... |
Patsy Rutter
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Arnie
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John Voldstad | ... |
Max
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Reid Cruickshanks | ... |
Coach Straight
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Morgan Lofting | ... |
Mrs. Rutter
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Kym Malin | ... |
Lola
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Kim G. Michel | ... |
Alva
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Jacqueline Cole | ... |
Alexis Wheeler
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Logan Ramsey | ... |
Mayor Neville
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Nurse Tubitt
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There's trouble in town and it's video games. High school students spend so much time with the electronic monsters that there's no time for schoolwork. Shucks. Written by Steve Derby <sderby@sdeco.com>
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More fun than games.Genres:
ComedyParents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
March 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$300,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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King Vidiot: [Shakes hands with Mr. Rutter] We both like to hang out in public bathrooms!
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The house used as Joseph Rutter's home had once belonged to 'Nat King Cole', at a time when Cole was the only African-American in the neighborhood. See more »Quotes
Joseph Rutter: You and I have something in common. Do you know what that is?King Vidiot: [Shakes hands with Mr. Rutter] We both like to hang out in public bathrooms!
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Joe Don Baker (along way from his Walking Tall glory days, he'd bounce back though) plays Joseph Rutter a father who is mad that his daughter is always hanging out at the local video arcade. He crusades to shut it down, but the management and the other local arcaders have something to say about that. Cue 'hijinks and misadventures' and gaming contests. This movie can and will trick you into thinking it's going to be a fun, if totally guilty pleasure, film at the beginning. The opening theme song is amazingly memorable in that '80's kitchy kind of way that you can't help but smile. The first, I don't know, maybe 10 minutes seem to reinforce that you'll be in for a forgotten classic of teen sex movies of yesterday. But then it goes wrong, horribly wrong. The jokes turn stale, everyone involved grows slightly more stupid (not that they were anywhere close to MENSA members before, but you know what I mean) And the movie just loses pretty much everything it may have had going for it, ceasing to be fun or even entertaining. I really wonder if there will ever be a good film centered around video games (in all likelihood not, but one can dream)
My Grade: D
Eye Candy:Kym Malin & Kim Michel get topless; Erin Halligan shows all