8-Bit Christmas

8-Bit Christmas

In suburban Chicago during the late 1980s, ten-year-old Jake Doyle embarks on a herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.

  • Released: 2021-11-24
  • Runtime: 98 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Family
  • Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley, June Diane Raphael, David Cross, Steve Zahn, Jacob Laval, Santino Barnard, Jackson Reid, Chandler Dean, Johnathan'tae Sturgess, Cyrus Arnold, Sophia Reid-Gantzert, Bellaluna Resnick
  • Director: Michael Dowse
 Comments
  • fredmcruz-10684 - 23 December 2023
    A film worth watching
    Spare the 80s reminiscents. This movie is not about the 80s. This movie is not about Nintendo. This movie is not about tweens adventures. It's a story about normal people and how they find the true meaning of family. A meaning that cannot be purchased at the mall. The movie is about the discovery that it requires hard work to build a relationship. Love and care are so obvious that they hide in plain sight. And it takes the whole set of adventures depicted in the movie until everyone realizes that the good stuff was sitting right in front of their eyes.

    This movie tells.the story very well. It's placed in the 80s, but could have been 50s, 1920s, or 2021. It doesn't matter. The powerful message is there.
  • martywhitlow - 29 November 2022
    Fun and Exaggerated version of our Childhoods
    Growing up on the late 80's and early 90's, this is a fun and exaggerated version of what it was like trying to get a NES, PlayStation, etc. You won't regret watching this with your kids. Lots of fun. Steve Zahn is the perfect, stressed, happy, pissed off, father, at Christmas time. I love the throw back to the things we had to find out the hard way. Like out of stock shelves, blowing on Nintendo tapes, and that the power glove was way overhyped. We literally had one kid in our neighborhood that has an NES. If and only if you were friends with him could you play it. I was a lucky little brother that got to play duck hunt when the older kids got tired of playing. Pretty accurate little fun film.