Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters

IMDb link: 0084314
IMDb rating: 4.2 (4,783 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Tom Hanks, Steven Hilliard Stern
Cast: Wendy Crewson, David Wysocki, Chris Makepeace and others

Release date: 28 Dec 1982
Release year: 1982
Runtime: 101 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: role playing game, delusion, world trade center manhattan new york city, disappearance, psychosis, cavern, quest, new york city, mental illness, based on novel

Plot:

Despite their personality differences, Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel and Robbie are close college friends, bound together by their pleasure in playing a game called "Mazes and Monsters." In order to keep it interesting, they decide to take the game from the board into a real-life setting. But soon the line between reality and fantasy becomes difficult to differentiate, and what started out as just a game soon becomes a nightmare.

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