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    Last Starfighter, The (1984)

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    Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) is a bored teenager who lives with his mother and young brother in the remote Starlite Starbrite trailer park and yearns to escape away to college with girlfriend and fellow Starbrite resident Maggie (Catherine Mary Stewart) – but his college loan application has been refused.

    Alex consoles himself as usual by playing ‘Starfighter’ – a game in which he is an expert – on the park’s outdoor arcade machine. His prowess at the game is monitored by emissaries from the Star League of the future, who whisk him away to the planet Rylos in a distant galaxy to join the real Star League pilots in the battle against the evil Xur (Norman Snow) and the Kodan Armada.

    It’s highly derivative – Star Trek-like aliens have Star Wars-inspired dogfights against a computer-graphic backdrop – but the sensitive love story between Alex and Maggie cuts through the cuteness and gives the intergalactic adventures a much-needed boost.

    Children will love it, especially the fun moments with Guest’s android double.

    laststarfighterAlex Rogan
    Lance Guest
    Grig
    Dan O’Herlihy
    Maggie Gordon
    Catherine Mary Stewart
    Jane Rogan
    Barbara Bosson
    Xur
    Norman Snow
    Centauri
    Robert Preston
    Enduran
    Kay E Kuter
    Louis Rogan
    Chris Hebert
    Lord Kril
    Dan Mason
    Rylan Bursar
    John O’Leary
    Rylan technician
    Charlene Nelson

    Director
    Nick Castle

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