The Last Starfighter
The Last Starfighter is a 1984 American space opera film directed by Nick Castle. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), a teenager recruited by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar war. It also features Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Norman Snow, and Kay E. Kuter.
Plot
Alex Rogan is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother and younger brother, Louis. After being rejected for a scholarship, Alex becomes angry at his go-nowhere existence. The only entertainment in the trailer park comes from an arcade game called "Starfighter", in which the player defends "the Frontier" against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada in a space battle. After Alex becomes the game's highest-scoring player, he is approached by the game's inventor, Centauri, who invites him to take a ride in his fancy car as a prize for winning the game. Centauri is actually an alien and his car a spacecraft; Alex is essentially abducted, and Beta, a doppelgänger android, is used to cover Alex's absence.
More details
| author | Jonathan R. Betuel |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | California |
| director | Nick Castle |
| editor | Carroll Timothy O'Meara |
| events | computing |
| genre | action adventure science fiction |
| keywords | abduct advanced android arcade game attack discover game heal kill land only way pickup truck recruit reject secret weapon set up space battle trailer park win |
| musicBy | Craig Safan |
| producer | Gary Adelson |
| productionCompany | Lorimar Television |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | California |
| theme | coming-of-age science fiction action science fiction war space opera |