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The Wizard is a 1989 American adventure comedy-drama film directed by Todd Holland, written by David Chisholm, and starring Fred Savage, Christian Slater, Jenny Lewis, Beau Bridges and Luke Edwards. It was also Tobey Maguire's film debut.
The film follows three children as they travel to California. The youngest of the three is emotionally withdrawn with a gift for playing video games. The Wizard is famous for its numerous references to video games and accessories for the Nintendo Entertainment System and has been called a feature-length commercial. The film was also well known for being North America's introduction to what would become one of the best-selling video games of all time, Super Mario Bros. 3. Over time, the film has gained somewhat of a cult following.
Jimmy Woods is a young boy who has suffered from an unnamed, but serious mental disorder ever since his twin sister Jennifer drowned in the Green River two years earlier. He does not interact with anyone, spending most of his time building things out of blocks or boxes, and he always carries his lunch box with him. He is determined to go to "California", at first nearly the only word he can say since the tragedy. The trauma of the drowning and Jimmy's condition have broken up his family; he lives with his mother Christine Bateman and stepfather, while his brothers Corey and Nick live with their father Sam. When Jimmy is put into an institution, Corey breaks him out and runs away with him to California. Christine and her husband hire Putnam, a greedy and sleazy runaway-child bounty hunter, to bring back only Jimmy; he competes with Sam and Nick to find the boys, and both groups sabotage each other's efforts, resulting in chaotic confrontations.
Actors: Olivier Lafond-Martel (producer), Simon Legros (producer), Olivier Lafond-Martel (director), Olivier Lafond-Martel (actor), Olivier Lafond-Martel (actor), Simon Legros (actor), Olivier Lafond-Martel (writer), Olivier Lafond-Martel (editor), Mathieu Simpson (actor), Emile-Pascal Boucher (actor), Andréanne Valin (actress), Jessica Charlebois (actress), Nick Desjardins (actor), Samuel Fortin (producer), Samuel Fortin (director),
Plot: A professional hitman hired under contract by the mafia québecoise is finally arrested for murder. But there is the chance to reduce his sentence if he is working for the Sûreté provinciale. He must infiltrate a criminal franchise in Gatineau in order scrapped a network of drug importation 'The Black Viaggio'.
Keywords: criminal, double-agent, drug-traffic, infiltration, mafiaActors: Nick Corbin (actor), Nick Corbin (actor), Nick Corbin (producer), Nick Corbin (writer), Nick Corbin (writer), Nick Corbin (costume designer), Nick Corbin (editor), Colton Mabry (costume designer), Colton Mabry (writer), Colton Mabry (editor), Ryan Hoffman (actor), T. Scott (actor), T. Scott (editor), Colleen Riggs (actress), Ryan Hoffman (editor),
Genres: Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Shawn Jones (actor), Ian Bonds (actor), Bob Rose (writer), Bob Rose (editor), Bob Rose (director), Bob Rose (producer), Robert Michael Zeman Jr. (actor), Michael C. Stettes (actor), Michael C. Stettes (composer), Andy Stone (actor), Barry Alexander Hesson (actor), Nick Nemphos (actor), Matthew Arnold Pie (actor), Victor Acord (actor), Christopher Zaleski (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance, Short,Actors: Kevin A. Green (actor), Kevin A. Green (actor), Hugo Matz (miscellaneous crew), Dianne Sullivan (actress), Matt Page (actor), Heather Lamb (miscellaneous crew), Cory Werthen (actor), Edward Fontaine (actor), Phillip Tolle (actor), Paladin (actor), Ricky Gupta (actor), Vanessa Cook (actress), Ben Cody Rogers (actor), Haydee Rodriguez (actress), Jamal Benoit (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror,Actors: Mike Stanley (actor), Kelly Burke (editor), Kelly Burke (composer), Kelly Burke (director), Kelly Burke (producer), Kelly Burke (writer), Kevin Buchanan (actor), Lauren Lazarus (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Jon Polito (actor), John DiMaggio (actor), Rob Paulsen (actor), Tom Kenny (actor), George Carlin (actor), John DiMaggio (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Bill Farmer (actor), Andy Dick (actor), John DiMaggio (actor), Tom Kenny (actor), Tom Kenny (actor), Tom Kenny (actor), Freddie Prinze Jr. (actor),
Plot: As the story begins, an alliance of evil fairy tale-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land and take control of. But when Ella A.K.A. Cinderella realizes her own evil stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, based-on-fairy-tale, cinderella, computer-animation, fart-joke, first-of-series, princess, punctuation-in-title, rapunzel, scene-during-end-creditsActors: Tim Buttner (actor), Tim Buttner (producer), Tim Buttner (writer), Tim Buttner (director), Tim Buttner (editor), Collen Doyle (actor), Connor McGrath (actor), Connor McGrath (actor), Zach Ralph (actor), Zach Ralph (director), Zach Ralph (writer), Zach Ralph (producer), Nick Turner (actor), Nick Turner (actor), Ian Harbage (actor),
Genres: Action, Crime, Short,Actors: Maureen Lipman (actress), Kerry Shale (actor), Allan Corduner (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Keith Wickham (actor), Jimmy Hibbert (actor), Colin McFarlane (actor), Peter Egan (actor), Tony Collingwood (writer), Tony Collingwood (director), Nigel Lambert (actor), Philip Appleby (composer), Maria Darling (actress), Christopher O'Hare (producer), Alexander Soskin (editor),
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family, Musical,Actors: Giorgio Simonelli (writer), Carlo Croccolo (actor), Gianfranco Parolini (writer), Ciccio Barbi (actor), Mario Carotenuto (actor), Alfredo Mayo (actor), Edda Ferronao (actress), Tiberio Murgia (actor), Rafael Durán (actor), Rubén Rojo (actor), Enzo Garinei (actor), Maria Grazia Buccella (actress), Maria Grazia Buccella (actress), Carlo Campogalliani (director), Miguel Ligero (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Joseph M. Schenck (miscellaneous crew), Fritz Feld (actor), Greta Granstedt (actress), Hugo Riesenfeld (producer), William Cameron Menzies (producer), Herbert Bunston (actor), Sidney Levee (director), D. Marion Staines (editor),
Genres: Fantasy, Short,A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
1989 movie "The Wizard" starring Fred Savage & Christian Slater (This is taken from an original VHS......now I have the DVD lol) There is only 3 whistles yeh? 2 in world 1 and 1 in world 2 yeh? :-)
If you visited my website a number of years ago, you may have come across a text file I wrote detailing the many mistakes made by the 1989 video game opus "The Wizard" - both factually and in presentation of the various games used. Here they are in video format. (And yes, I know it's just a movie. I heartily enjoy this movie, as a matter of fact. Point is, 90% of the stuff in this video is stuff that any 9-year-old watching the movie at the time would've noticed as being blatantly wrong. They had a "Nintendo Consultant" on the payroll, for God's sake - they could have at least gotten the Zelda stuff right.) It should be noted that this video only deals with things that are FACTUALLY wrong about the various games it depicts. There are plenty of other discrepancies in the film - like how t...
Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Subscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDe Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt The Wizard Trailer - Directed by Todd Holland and starring Luke Edwards, Luke Edwards, Vince Trankina, Wendy Phillips, Dea McAllister. The Wizard is a story about two brothers who run away from divorcing parents to cross the country and compete in a national video game championship. Universal - 1989
I've spoted a young Tobey Maguire (with mullets) while watching The Wizard . (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/)
Siskel & Ebert review the infamous Nintendo movie The Wizard (1989), starring Fred Savage and The Power Glove
The Critic reviews Nintendo's biggest commercial fuck-up since the Virtual Boy, The Wizard (1989) Part 1/2
In the 1989 film, "The Wizard" starring Fred Savage, Jenny Lewis, and Luke Edwards, there is a point where the trio go to an arcade in Reno to "train" Jimmy (Edwards) in hopes to win the big video game tournament in California. This part features very brief footage of the original Metroid (at 1:42), along with other great games from the 80's. Let's not forget this montage is all done to a rockin' 80's song, "I Live By The Groove" by Paul Carrack! Watch the entire clip here. The Wizard is (c)1989 Universal Pictures.
I can read what's going through your mind,
I can see what you hide in your eyes,
yeas, I'm gonna put a spell on you,
Just to see exactly what you'll do
I'm a wizard
and there's magic in the air
I'm a sinner
and my friend you'd best beware
there's magic everywhere
can you see the formal in the sky?
time like water flows by till we die
every moment wasted leaves its mark
the setting sun leaves us standing in the dark
I'm a wizard
and there's magic in the air
I'm a sinner
and my friend you'd best beware
I'm a wizard
and there's magic in the air
I'm a sinner
and my friend you'd best beware
there's magic everywhere
One must forgive them noisy rushing fools
Who have no time for natures natural schools
They cannot see the life that's in their hands
Like ghosts they disappear across the land
I'm a wizard
And there's magic in the air
I'm a sinner
And my friend you'd best beware
I'm a wizard
And there's magic in the air
I'm a capturer
And my friend you'd best beware
There's magic everywhere
I'm a wah wah wah wah w-w-w-w-wizard
I'm a s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sinner
I'm a wah wah wah wah w-w-w-w-wizard
I'm a s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sinner
I'm a wah wah wah wah w-w-w-w-wizard
I'm a s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sinner
I'm a wah wah wah wah w-w-w-w-wizard
I'm a s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sinner