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Regina Davis (writer)
Albert Pyun (writer)
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Release Date:
26 February 1988 (USA) more
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Venture to the core! more
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A nerdish teenager goes looking for her missing archaeolist father, and stumbles into a strange underground civilization. full summary | add synopsis
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Yes, it's bad, but it's not Kathy's fault. more (30 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kathy Ireland | ... | Wanda Saknussemm |
 | William R. Moses | ... | Guten 'Gus' Edway |
 | Richard Haines | ... | Prof. Arnold Saknussemm |
 | Don Michael Paul | ... | Robbie |
| Thom Mathews | ... | Charmin' |
| Janet Du Plessis | ... | General Rykov / Shank / Claims Officer |
 | Simon Poland | ... | Consul Triton Crassus / The Mailman |
| Linda Kerridge | ... | Roeyis Freki / Auntie Pearl |
| Kristen Trucksess | ... | Stacy |
| Lochner De Kock | ... | Professor Ovid Galba / Professor Paddy Mahoney |
 | Deep Roy | ... | Mambino |
| Albert Maritz | ... | Mago / Maintenance Worker / Evangelist / Pack Slag Jack |
| Russel Savadier | ... | Loki |
| Denis Smith | ... | Anchorman |
| James Lithgow | ... | Donaldson / Wrestling Announcer / Emcee |
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Odeon
Wanda (USA) (TV title)
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87 min
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The last name for the main character is taken from Arne Sakneusemm, the Icelandic scientist who traveled to center of the earth in Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth". more
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Revealing mistakes: Kathy Ireland briefly loses her squeaky voice when she's doped up on the table. She laughs and says in a deeper voice (probably her real one), "You think I'm an alien?" more
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Wanda Saknussemm: Bitchin' left hook, Crassus! more
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Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Alien from L.A. (#6.16)" (1993) more
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State of the Heart more
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Albert Pyun presents his vision of the lost city of Atlantis - and it's a vision so cluttered up with claustrophobic settings, weird costumes and noisy, "quirky" minor characters that one thing is for sure: you want to get the hell outta there as soon as possible (unfortunately, it will take you about 80 minutes). The "Alice in Wonderland"-like story is meandering and uninteresting, and there was probably no actress in the world who could have turned this into a good movie, though Kathy Ireland makes an appealing (annoying voice and all) attempt. (*1/2)