Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters
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Cast & Crew
Steven Hilliard Stern
Tom Hanks
Wendy Crewson
David Wallace
Chris Makepeace
Lloyd Bochner
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Synopsis
Four gifted college students' fantasy game -- a complex, theoretical war strategy played against a medieval background allowing each to assume other identities, plunge into various adventures, and keep from getting killed -- takes an ominous turn. A quartet of young, fairly-new-to-television actors take the leads in this Canadian-made film, with a number of veteran performers as their parents. The first TV-movie based on one of Rona Jaffe's novels, the best-known of which was "The Best of Everything", it is a dramatization of the author's chronicle that was inspired by newspaper accounts of a teenager's 1979 disappearance while playing the popular fantasy game, "Dungeons and Dragons."
Director
Steven Hilliard Stern
Cast
Tom Hanks
Wendy Crewson
David Wallace
Chris Makepeace
Lloyd Bochner
Peter Donat
Anne Francis
Murray Hamilton
Vera Miles
Louise Sorel
Susan Strasberg
Chris Wiggins
Clark Johnson
Tom Harvey
James O'regan
Kevin Fox
Angelo Rizacos
Eric Fink
Kevin Peter Hall
Jim Bearden
Crew
Richard A Briggs
Cal Dodd
Lazlo George
Linda Gill
Hagood Hardy
Hagood Hardy
Rona Jaffe
Rona Jaffe
Judith Lander
Judith Lander
Owen Langevin
Tom Lazarus
Tom Mcdermott
Bill Parker
Steve Shewchuk
Trevor Williams
Trevor Williams
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Aired in United States December 28, 1982
