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Kids Club - The Last Starfighter

WHEN:: Sat. 01/27 | 12:00PM
WHERE:: Alamo Drafthouse South, 1120 South Lamar map

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Kids Club - The Last Starfighter
Theater: Alamo Lamar

Director: Nick Castle
Rating: PG
Runtime: 101 min.

Age Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

Presented by Ain't It Cool News, The Austin Chronicle and Big Brothers/Big Sisters

THE LAST STARFIGHTER
SATURDAY JAN. 27 - NOON LAMAR, FREE
DIRECTOR: Nick Castle 1984 101min. 35mm

What sweaty-browed video game aficionado hasn’t pretended, while feverishly pounding away on their Playstation control, that they were actually saving the universe? That’s the conceit employed in 1984’s THE LAST STARFIGHTER, a lightweight yet wholly entertaining sci-fi adventure that’s come to command a special place in the heart of my disaffected generation. Our hero is the mild-mannered and anxious trailer-park denizen Alex Rogan. After mastering the local Starfighter video game, Alex is visited by an interstellar messenger who delivers a curious message: The game Alex has been dominating is much more than a simple plaything; a planet desperately in need of savvy star pilots has planted these games on Earth in an effort to find new recruits. Imagine that! Excel at a video game and you’re drafted to save a distant planet! How very cool. (Scott Weinberg)

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Saturday, January 27

12:00 Noon - Free Kids Club!