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March 1983 (USA)
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More fun than games.
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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. full summary | add synopsis
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The finest film of this or any other generation!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Joe Don Baker | ... | Joseph Rutter |
| Leif Green | ... | Eugene Groebe |
| Jim Greenleaf | ... | Jonathan Andrew McDorfus |
 | Scott McGinnis | ... | Jefferson Bailey |
 | Jon Gries | ... | King Vidiot (as Jonathan Gries) |
| Corinne Bohrer | ... | Patsy Rutter |
| John Diehl | ... | Arnie |
| John Voldstad | ... | Max |
| Reid Cruickshanks | ... | Coach Straight |
| Morgan Lofting | ... | Mrs. Rutter |
| Kym Malin | ... | Lola |
| Kim G. Michel | ... | Alva |
| Jacqueline Cole | ... | Alexis Wheeler (as Jacqulin Cole) |
| Logan Ramsey | ... | Mayor Neville |
 | Justine Lenore | ... | Nurse Tubitt |
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88 min
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Joseph Rutter:
If you're half the leader I think you are...
King Vidiot: I am half the leader you think I am!
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King Vidiot: I am half the leader you think I am!
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Featured in Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade (2007)
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Hooked
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A beautiful majestic and taut thriller set against the backdrop of a suburban video arcade. Joe Don Baker gives us a towering performance as the cliched angry parent wanting to shut the arcade down. It's amazing that even now, 20 years later, the film still inspires, still excites and still amazes even the most jaded movie viewer. If there is a God, I know that even he must get a smile on his face from the pointless nudity and hours upon hours of video game playing that this movie portrays with such raw tenacity and such POWER! 10/10. Long live "Joysticks!"