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.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.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.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Vince Trankina
- Tate
- (as Vincent Leahr)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaBeau Bridges and Christian Slater both admitted they had little to no interest in video games when they were cast. They played during filming, and became fans.
- GoofsAfter playing Double Dragon (1987) at the bus stop, Corey remarks that Jimmy scored 50,000 points. Jimmy played for less than two minutes. In real life, that would have to playing through almost the entire game, which would take much longer.
- Alternate versionsWhen shown on Nickelodeon, all profane language is cut, along with the "he touched my breast" line (and, of course, all subsequent references to that line.)
- SoundtracksYou Don't Get Much
Written by Kurt Neumann (as Kurt Newmann), Sammy Llanas (as Sam Llanas)
Performed by BoDeans (as Bo Deans)
Courtesy of Slash Records/Reprise Records
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
Featured review
A Commercial Classic
A touching drama about a young boy's quest to help his autistic younger brother and a troubled young girl they meet along the way running from her own demons.....
Okay, so it's mostly just a 90 minute commercial for Super Mario Brothers 3, but it's also a great road movie with plenty of classic 80's quotable material ("I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."). It has a good soundtrack as well.
I think if a person sees the film for the first time nowadays they might not enjoy it as much as those who saw the film growing up and enjoy that oh so good feeling of nostalgia.
Okay, so it's mostly just a 90 minute commercial for Super Mario Brothers 3, but it's also a great road movie with plenty of classic 80's quotable material ("I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."). It has a good soundtrack as well.
I think if a person sees the film for the first time nowadays they might not enjoy it as much as those who saw the film growing up and enjoy that oh so good feeling of nostalgia.
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- 小鬼蹺家
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,278,900
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,142,525
- Dec 17, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $14,278,900
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