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The Last Starfighter (1984)
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A video-gaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force. Director:Nick CastleWriter:Jonathan R. Betuel |
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Dan O'Herlihy | ... | |
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Barbara Bosson | ... | |
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Kay E. Kuter | ... | |
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Dan Mason | ... | |
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Chris Hebert | ... | |
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George McDaniel | ... | |
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Charlene Nelson | ... | |
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John Maio | ... | |
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Robert Starr | ... | |
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Al Berry | ... | |
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Alex Rogan lives in a trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. He beats the Starfighter video game to the applause of everyone in the court and later that day finds he has been turned down for a student loan for college. Depressed, he meets Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the game, before Alex really knows what is going on he is on the ride of his life in a "car" flying through space. Chosen to take the skills he showed on the video game into real combat to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Alex gets as far as the Starfighter base before he really realized that he was conscripted and requests to be taken back home. When he gets back home, he finds a Zando-Zan (alien bounty hunter) is stalking him. Unable to go home and live, Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find all the pilots have been killed and he is the galaxy's only chance to be saved from invasion... Written by John Vogel <jvogel@dgs.dgsys.com> & Spokavriel updated
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Az utolsó csillagharcos See more »Filming Locations:
9411 Soledad Canyon Rd., Canyon Country, California, USABox Office
Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$6,011,695 (USA) (15 July 1984) (1287 Screens)Gross:
$28,733,290 (USA)Company Credits
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2.20 : 1
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Grig: Exactly! Xur thinks you're still on Earth. Classic military strategy, surprise attack.
Alex Rogan: It'll be a slaughter!
Grig: That's the spirit!
Alex Rogan: No, *my* slaughter!
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(Craig Safan & Mark Mueller)
Performed by Karen Blake & Gregory Prestopino (as Greg Prestopino) See more »
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The first movie to do all special effects (except makeup and explosions) on a computer. All shots of spacecraft, space, etc were generated on a Cray X-MP computer. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: When Centauri is driving the Star Car and removes Robert Preston's face to reveal an alien face, the glow of its eyes casts no reflection on the windshield nor the passenger partition. See more »Quotes
Alex Rogan: Hold it! There's no fleet? No Starfighters, no plan? One ship, you, me, and that's it?Grig: Exactly! Xur thinks you're still on Earth. Classic military strategy, surprise attack.
Alex Rogan: It'll be a slaughter!
Grig: That's the spirit!
Alex Rogan: No, *my* slaughter!
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"Satisfy The Night"(Craig Safan & Mark Mueller)
Performed by Karen Blake & Gregory Prestopino (as Greg Prestopino) See more »
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