The Wizard
The movie follows a boy and his emotionally disturbed younger brother as they run away from home and journey to the West Coast with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
11 November 1940
8 January 1976, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
16 March 1951, Lordsworth, Warwickshire, England, UK
16 May 1976
18 August 1969, New York City, New York, USA
18 July 1962, Palo Alto, California, USA
9 July 1976, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
6 August 1945, Seattle, Washington, USA
27 June 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
July 04, 2005
Lots of fun
March 04, 2003
This movie sucks so bad, I didn't even like it in the 80s.
January 01, 2000
Granted, Nintendo has cornered the video game market, and all the kids in the audience seemed to know each game as it appeared on the screen, but why pander to that Saturday morning commercial television sensibility?
September 15, 2006
I love "The Wizard. It's so bad.
July 30, 2015
An ad for video games that makes video games look like a peyote hallucination.
July 14, 2007
one of the best movies about the nintendo entertainment system...
June 21, 2013
A solid and entertaining road film that is never cloying or abundantly sweet.
January 01, 2000
Hollywood hucksters, zap them, have borrowed from Japanese game-pushers in this shameless attempt to sucker America's children.
August 31, 2006
a unique exercise in crappy '80s moviemaking %u2013 which has now become a unique exercise in crappy '80s nostalgia.
January 01, 2000
It was only after the three kids arrived safely at the championships that I began to question the ethics of the film, which is, among other things, a thinly disguised commercial for Nintendo video games and the Universal studio tour.
March 12, 2010
The runaways' actions provide anything but responsible models for the children who make up the film's target audience, and the likable cast flails against the rampant idiocy and gross commercialism.
May 20, 2003
Video-addicted kids may well find this exciting, but for anyone old enough to stay out later than 9 P.M. it's a distinct bore.
