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THE KING OF KONG (PG)

Director: Seth Gordon
Year: 2007
Duration: 79 min
Country: USA

A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong. In 1982, Life Magazine assembled the worlds greatest gamers for a photo shoot that would become the centre spread of their 1982 Year-In-Photos edition. Billy Mitchell, who would later be named the Gamer of the Century, was one of the invitees. Scoring 874,300 points on Donkey Kong, Mitchell claimed a record many thought would never be broken. Over 20 years later in 2003, 35 year-old Steve Wiebe, after losing his job at Boeing, found solace in Donkey Kong, and set out to break the record.

WHY YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM: Boo and hiss at the screen at one of the years most heinous villians in the form of 1982 Donkey Kong champion Billy Mitchell.

PRE SCREENING ENTERTAINMENT:
Codin Caron (Live)


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showing at;

Jersey Museum Cinema

19:00 to 21:00, 26th Sep