Good actors in search of a better screenplay adaption of a sensationalist novel? This was pretty awful. I did love seeing old New York, and my towers. By the way, JayJay’s address doesn’t exist, and the route the kids take into the city to find Robby is a pastiche of random roads and bridges that make no sense.
Watched this way back when it first aired - there wasn't really much on TV those days and most people did not yet have cable. So we watched bad made-for-tv movies. The best thing about that movie was the Myna Bird.
Lasted only 20 mins and then shut it off
Shout by drqshadowBlockedParent2020-02-03T19:53:28Z
A full-on smear campaign about the evils of Dungeons and Dragons, from the height of the parental outcry against the game. Funny and sad in the same context as Reefer Madness, it's akin to a long after-school special in the blunt, inelegant way it hammers away at its only point. An extremely young Tom Hanks, freshly released from his run on Bosom Buddies, cut his teeth on more serious material in this leading role. As the poor sap who nosedives into mental illness as a direct result of the game, his part is madly corny and he clearly had some growing pains to work through before becoming the dramatic juggernaut we'd all come to know a decade later.
Badly produced, terribly acted, smug and boring and predictable to the final reveal, it's a living stereotype, the very essence of a bad made-for-TV movie.