What is The Wizard (movie)?
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Wizard'' (movie)}} '''''The Wizard''''' is a 1989 American [[adventure]] [[comedy-drama]] family movie. It was directed by [[Todd Holland]]. It was written by David Chisholm. It stars [[Fred Savage]], [[Christian Slater]], [[wikipedia:Jenny Lewis|Jenny Lewis]], [[Beau Bridges]], and [[Luke Edwards]]. The movie is about three children travelling to [[California]]. The youngest of the three is a genius in video games. ''The Wizard'' is famous for its extensive product placement of video games for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]]. The MOVIE was also famous for being North America's introduction to one of the best-selling video games of all time, ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gamecubicle.com/features-mario-units_sold_sales.htm|title=Super Mario Sales Data: Historical Units Sold Numbers for Mario Bros on NES, SNES, N64...|website=www.gamecubicle.com|access-date=2017-07-25}}</ref> == Plot == After his little brother, Jimmy ([[Luke Edwards]]), a boy who is always with his [[lunchbox]], is put into a mental institution, Corey ([[Fred Savage]]) breaks him out and the pair run off together to [[California]]. On their way, Corey meets a girl named Haley ([[Jenny Lewis]]) and discovers that Jimmy is a [[genius]] at playing video games. With talents like this, he could easily win the top prize of $50,000 at Video Armageddon. While the three travellers are going (hitch-hiking) to the competition, the boys' parents hire a bounty hunter to track them down. == Primary cast == * [[Fred Savage]] as Corey Woods * Luke Edwards as Jimmy Woods * Jenny Lewis as Haley Brooks * [[Christian Slater]] as Nick Woods * [[Beau Bridges]] as Sam Woods * Will Seltzer as Putnam * Wendy Phillips as Christine Bateman * Sam McMurray as Mr. Bateman == Production == Recording took place between June 5 and July 25, 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/business|title=The Wizard (1989) - Box office / business|website=IMDb|access-date=2017-07-25}}</ref> Lee Hartney from The