The Wizard

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.

Cast

Luke Edwards

as Jimmy

Vince Trankina

as Tate

Wendy Phillips

as Christine

Dea McAllister

as Counselor

Sam McMurray

as Bateman

Beau Bridges

as Sam

Fred Savage

as Corey

Christian Slater

as Nick

Will Seltzer

as Putnam

Roy Conrad

as Bus Clerk

Reviews

JPV852

Has some heart at times, almost ruined by the blatant and, hate to use this word, cringe-worthy product placement from Hostess to Nintendo to Universal Studios (which makes sense since this was one of their movies). The acting and writing is bad and I'm not quite sure who this movie was made for (th...

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