The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Poster Image
Rated
PG-13
Runtime 79 min
Ratings
77% TMDB
97% critics Rotten Tomatoes
93% audience Rotten Tomatoes
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Genre Documentary, Biography, Sport
Release 02/28/08
Actors Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Mark Alpiger
Directors Seth Gordon
In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day, an Iowan who runs Funspot, an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks Mitchell's record in public at Funspot, and Mitchell promptly mails a controversial video tape of himself setting a new record. So Wiebe travels to Florida hoping Mitchell will face him for the 2007 Guinness World Records. Will the mind-game-playing Mitchell engage; who will end up holding the record?
Genre Documentary, Biography, Sport
Release 02/28/08
Actors Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Mark Alpiger
Directors Seth Gordon
In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day, an Iowan who runs Funspot, an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks Mitchell's record in public at Funspot, and Mitchell promptly mails a controversial video tape of himself setting a new record. So Wiebe travels to Florida hoping Mitchell will face him for the 2007 Guinness World Records. Will the mind-game-playing Mitchell engage; who will end up holding the record?