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The Last Starfighter
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2661
- IMDb #2973
- Rotten Tomatoes #2193
- Metacritic #1689
- Letterboxd #3254
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2341
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2587
- Metacritic Audience #1654
- Criticker #2286
- Kinopoisk #4617
- AlloCiné #3290
- Trakt #2450
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 43, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A teenager frustrated with his life in a sleepy trailer park spends his time mastering a video game called Starfighter. His skills are put to the ultimate test when the game's creator, an alien navigator, recruits him to pilot a real starfighter in an interstellar war. He is thrust into a cosmic battle to defend a frontier world from an evil armada.
Details
- Director
- Nick Castle
- Writer
- Jonathan R. Betuel
- Released
- 13 July 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $28.7M
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Cast
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Awards
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