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Writers (WGA):
Lou Illar (story)
Galen Thompson (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
9 April 1993 (USA) more
Tagline:
A dreamer and a champion. An unbeatable team...Until his hero stepped out of his fantasies to fight at his side.
Plot:
Barry is an asthmatic kid having trouble in life. He lives with his father, a computer programmer, in Texas... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A decade of inspiration that never got old. more (42 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Beau Bridges | ... | Jerry Gabrewski |
 | Jonathan Brandis | ... | Barry Gabrewski |
 | Mako | ... | Mr. Lee |
 | Julia Nickson-Soul | ... | Noreen Chan |
 | Joe Piscopo | ... | Kelly Stone |
 | Danica McKellar | ... | Lauren |
| John Buchanan | ... | Randy Cellini |
| Richard Moll | ... | Horn |
| Gerrit Graham | ... | Mapes |
| Dennis Burkley | ... | Hank |
 | Chuck Norris | ... | Chuck Norris |
| Dennis Letts | ... | Man with Dog |
| Christy Martin | ... | Female Student |
 | David Born | ... | Businessman |
| Lawrence Joe | ... | Old Chinese Man |
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101 min
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Color (Film House)
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Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Germany:12 | Norway:11 | Sweden:11 | USA:PG
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The white building seen in the background where Barry is training with the nunchucks is the former Blue Ribbon rice silo - the silo stood vacant for several years and was demolished in 1996; the former rice silo is the current location of the Memorial Heights subdivision, which is a townhouse community in close proximity to Downtown Houston. more
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Factual errors: The Inhaler that Barry uses is not a use-on-demand type inhaler, it is in fact a one-time daily use inhaler. more
Quotes:
Barry:
Milk.
Kelly Stone:
[loud laughter] Hey, how 'bout some cookies?
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Spoofs Missing in Action (1984) more
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This was the first Chuck Norris movie I ever saw and it hooked me to his career. This light hearted movie is perfect for people of all ages and can be seen again and again. It really stresses the important values of martial arts training and the stereotypes surrounding them when comparing Lee's (Mako) and Stone's techniques. This is a great family movie and one that I have recommended to family and friends for over a decade. The cast for this movie could not have been chosen better if Aaron and Chuck had tried. In many ways the actors are able to pull the viewers back in time to when they were in high school and remember what it was like. You can relate to these characters which only makes this film better. Again I would recommend this movie to anyone five and up.