Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter and one day he finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.
5 May 1942, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
29 March 1950, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
21 July 1960, Saratoga, California, USA
25 March 1955, USA
1 May 1919, Wexford, Ireland
8 October 1959, Missouri, USA
12 September 1943, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
10 November 1921, Savannah, Missouri, USA
9 April 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
22 October 1962, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
10 September 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 April 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 August 1962, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
23 February 1924, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
28 July 1954, Portland, Oregon, USA
22 April 1959, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
18 April 1934
10 August 1927, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
18 July 1938, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
5 May 1926, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
July 5, 1955 in Hemet, California, USA
30 May 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 21, 2008
Definite "Star Wars" influenced, this trailer park adventure takes off, succeeds on own.
March 02, 2011
full of 80s cheese, but for someone like me who grew up with this kind of stuff, it was the perfect escape
August 26, 2009
One of the few successful Spielberg clones, administering the usual routine of aliens and mouth-agape wonder with friendly determination and a perfect, just perfect, game boy screenwriting hook.
June 24, 2006
Great fun, with some truly comical moments; a must for pulp-heads and video-junkies.
August 12, 2009
Charmingly hokey...takes the suburban-working-class-folks-meet-space-aliens paradigm of early Spielberg and marries it to Lucas' Star Wars. [Blu-ray]
February 02, 2003
A cult classic long overdue its proper respect!
March 28, 2003
If you're going to shamelessly rip off Star Wars, make sure you do it with as much spirit as this film.
April 13, 2003
Overlooked sci-fi tale. Great fun.
August 12, 2014
It embraces its derivativeness and runs with it to deliver a fun kids space opera that's simple, but exciting.
May 24, 2009
the rousing kind of kid flick that inspires ten-year-old boys to grab broomsticks, storm the neighborhood hill, and go nuts on pretend aliens with ridiculous faux karate moves.
