"The Last Starfighter is a 1984 science fiction adventure film directed by Nick Castle. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), an average teenage boy recruited by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar war. It also featured Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Norman Snow and Kay E. Kuter. The Last Starfighter, in addition to Disney's Tron, has the distinction of being one of cinema's earliest films to use extensive computer-generated imagery (CGI) to depict its many starships, environments and battle scenes. The Last Starfighter was Preston's final film role. His character, a "lovable con-man", was a nod to his most famous role as Harold Hill in The Music Man.[2] There was a subsequent novelization of the film by Alan Dean Foster, as well as a video game based on the production. In 2004, it was also adapted as an off-Broadway musical." - Harold

Good memories of this movie. I remember a lot of computer magazines talking up the use of the Cray X-MP for rendering at the time. I also got a pirate copy of the movie on VHS which was watched a lot. Saw the film again only recently; still entertaining to me even if my wife wasn't very impressed. - Mark H

I loved that movie. I also used to watch that movie on VHS a lot. - Rodfather