A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Vince Trankina
- Tate
- (as Vincent Leahr)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBeau Bridges and Christian Slater both admitted they had little to no interest in video games when they were cast. They played during filming, and became fans.
- GoofsAfter playing Double Dragon (1987) at the bus stop, Corey remarks that Jimmy scored 50,000 points. Jimmy played for less than two minutes. In real life, that would have to playing through almost the entire game, which would take much longer.
- Alternate versionsWhen shown on Nickelodeon, all profane language is cut, along with the "he touched my breast" line (and, of course, all subsequent references to that line.)
- SoundtracksYou Don't Get Much
Written by Kurt Neumann (as Kurt Newmann), Sammy Llanas (as Sam Llanas)
Performed by BoDeans (as Bo Deans)
Courtesy of Slash Records/Reprise Records
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
Featured review
You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?!?
If you were born between the years 1974 and 1984 and were as obsessed as most of us were about Nintendo games, you will enjoy this movie. Yes, the plot is predictable and cheesy and the writing leaves a lot to be desired, but I guarantee if you fall into the above group, you will enjoy regressing back to 1989 where having "all 97 games," and "the power glove (it's so bad...)" were major status symbols. If you don't fall into this group, or couldn't really care less about old video games, then you should probably pass on this film. But for the rest of us, (I used to watch the commercial for this film just to get a glimpse at Super Mario Bros. 3) watch it and enjoy it time after time.
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- mattdvs
- Aug 7, 2001
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- 小鬼蹺家
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,278,900
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,142,525
- Dec 17, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $14,278,900
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