Hooked on the Game (2009)
Overview
After a stunning victory at a cyber sport tournament, the winning gamers are awarded CDs with a brand new game. After playing this game, each of them is affected with some force, turning their gaming abilities into real ones. They each become the best fighters, shooters and racers in real life. However, this does not go unnoticed. Through blackmail, cheating and bribes, authorities offer the gamers a "job". But as soon as the lies are revealed it becomes clear that they are not heroes saving their country but nothing more than paid assassins. Moreover, the producer of the game is keeping many more of the same CDs, so many more "heroes" like themselves could also be produced. Now the gamers have to find the CDs and either destroy them or create an army of gamers and rule over all. The team becomes divided into two, each pitted against the other
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $3,500,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $3,704,408.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 4.946 |
Directed By
Pavel Sanaev
Crew
Aleksandr Chubaryan
Pavel Sanaev
Leonid Ogorodnikov
Oleg Andreev
Aleksey Ryazantsev
Alexandr Bondarev
Pavel Sanaev
Sergei Alibekov
Vladislav Gurtchin
Olga Dubovitskaya
Leonid Veitkov
Vladimir Namestnikov
Valeriy Derkach
Yuri Litvinov
Valeriy Derkach
Nikolay Gadomsky
Vadim Gomerbakh
Yuri Levchenko
Dmitry Slobtsov
Yury Obukhov
Ivan Burlyaev
TOP CAST
Sergey Chirkov
Vampire
Pavel Priluchnyy
Doc
Agniya Ditkovskite
Lena
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Boris Sergeevich
Igor Sklyar
Sergei Zaritsyn
Mikhail Gorevoy
Pokrovsky
Marina Petrenko
Rita
Evgeniy Kharlanov
Mosquito
Tikhon Zhiznevsky
Long
Nodar Siradze
Yan
Aleksey Bardukov
Max
Boris Tenin
Lebedev
Mikhail Trukhin
Skolsky
Vladimir Shiryaev
Lebedev's assistant
Yuriy Nikulin
lecturer
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