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The Last Starfighter

Movie (1984)

"He didn't find his dreams... his dreams found him."

The Last Starfighter tells the story of Alex, a young man trapped n the life of a trailer park mechanic. His mastery of a video game leads to being recruited as the only hope of an intergalactic civilization nearly wiped out by a merciless enemy.

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Released:	Jul 13th, 1984
Budget:	$15,000,000.00
Revenue:	$28,733,290.00

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Lance Guest
plays Alex Rogan / Beta Alex

Dan O'Herlihy
plays Grig

Catherine Mary Ste…
plays Maggie Gordon

Barbara Bosson
plays Jane Rogan

Norman Snow
plays Xur

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Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): SPOILER: After Grig performs the "dead" Centauri's last rites, Centauri's eyelids flutter. However, at the end it turns out he was not dead but merely in a regenerative state.
A lot of the scenes with the Beta Unit were shot after main filming was complete because the test audience liked the comic relief of the Beta Unit scenes and the director decided they added more originality to the "boy gets to go to outer space" story. This is why in many of the Beta Unit scenes Lance Guest is obviously wearing a wig - he had cut his hair by the time those scenes were shot.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The interior set of the Star Car does not match the exterior shots.
In 2007, a musical based on the movie was performed as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

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