The Wizard The Wizard

They're on a cross-country adventure to the world's greatest video championship. It's more than a game...it's the chance of a lifetime.

Corey (Fred Savage) refuses to let his emotionally disturbed younger brother Jimmy (Luke Edwards) be institutionalized, and the two run away together. They soon join forces with a resourceful girl (Jenny Lewis), who notices that Jimmy has a special talent: he is a "wizard" at video games and can achieve the high score on absolutely everything he plays. Evading their parents and a sinister bounty hunter, the trio head for a climactic showdown at the national video game championships in California.

Fred Savage Luke Edwards Beau Bridges Christian Slater Jenny Lewis Vince Trankina Wendy Phillips Sam McMurray Will Seltzer Dea McAllister

Universal Pictures

comedy drama family road movie

100 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Josh Kolb

    Review by Josh Kolb ★★★★★

    There is an old unspoken film rule, stating that if Beau Bridges cries, you must also cry.

  • Mattsuzaka

    Review by Mattsuzaka ★★★★

    Super Mario Bros. 3!!

  • Adam Schoales

    Review by Adam Schoales ★★½ 2

    I love The Power Glove, it's so Bad!

    Film reviews itself.

  • Sammy Waisanen

    Review by Sammy Waisanen ★★★½

    POWER GLOVE.

  • theactualjase

    Review by theactualjase ★★½

    BEST NINTENDO AD EVER

  • Scott Audetat

    Review by Scott Audetat ★★★½

    I remember seeing this as a child and loving it because it was all about Nintendo games and I was a Nintendo junkie. I remember it was set up to be a big promo for SUPER MARIO BROS 3, so it was cool to see it in the film and then buy the game. Nice cast as well.

  • Luke Poulton

    Review by Luke Poulton ★★★

    Film 27 of The December Project.

    Running time: 100 minutes.

    This was complete nostalgia for me. But also a giant advert for Nintendo. This is honestly a great old childhood film. Yes Nintendo must have paid so much, for so many of their games and devices being in this. Even one scene where the kid Lucas that is never beat on video games shows the three main kids on their trip to the Ultimate Video Game Championship, "The Powerglove" yeah that's right the Powerglove, we all know how great that was right, and how well it was received, right? Even Super Mario Bros 3 first gameplay footage was seen in this film. The main story of this film is of…

  • Ron

    Review by Ron ★★★

    Basically a feature length commercial for Nintendo...

    Read my review at...
    revronmovies.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-wizard.html

  • Jim Ellwanger

    Review by Jim Ellwanger ★★★

    I wanted more of the kids and less of the adults. And now I want to listen to Rilo Kiley albums for some reason.