The Last Starfighter

Genre: Sci-Fi

Worldwide gross$28.7M

Alex Rogan lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a massive extended family. He defeats Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game to the applause of everyone in the court and later finds out he has been turned down for a student loan for college. Depressed, he meets Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the game, before Alex really knows what is going on, he is on the ride of his life in a sports car flying through space. Chosen to take the skills he showed on the video game into real combat to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Alex gets as far as the Starfighter base before he really realized that he was conscripted and requests to be taken back home. When he gets back home, he finds a Zando-Zan (alien bounty hunter) is stalking him. Unable to go home and live, Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find all the pilots have been killed and he is the galaxy's only chance to be saved from invasion. To defeat the invaders, who are paying the bounty on him, he must be victorious.

🏆 5 nominations total

Genres

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director

Nick Castle

Cast

Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter

Released

13 July 1984

Runtime

1h 40m

Certificate

PG

IMDb rating

6.7 / 10

Votes

49,174

Metascore

67

Rotten Tomatoes

76%

Box office

$28,733,290

Edition

Base