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Hooked on the Game
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Hooked on the Game

2009-11-26 · 97 min · ★ 5.7

Action · Science Fiction

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

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Directors
Pavel Sanaev
Production companies
IVAN Production Center
Countries
Russia
Status
Released
Budget
USD 3,500,000
Revenue
USD 3,704,408

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Sergey ChirkovSergey ChirkovVampire
Pavel PriluchnyPavel PriluchnyDoc
Agniya DitkovskiteAgniya DitkovskiteLena
Viktor VerzhbitskiyViktor VerzhbitskiyBoris Sergeevich
Igor SklyarIgor SklyarSergei Zaritsyn
Mikhail GorevoyMikhail GorevoyPokrovsky
Marina PetrenkoMarina PetrenkoRita
Evgeniy KharlanovEvgeniy KharlanovMosquito
Tikhon ZhiznevskyTikhon ZhiznevskyLong
Nodar SiradzeNodar SiradzeYan
Aleksey BardukovAleksey BardukovMax
Boris TeninBoris TeninLebedev
Mikhail TrukhinMikhail TrukhinSkolsky
Vladimir ShiryaevVladimir ShiryaevLebedev's assistant
Anton SyomkinAnton Syomkin
Sergey BurunovSergey Burunov
Stanislav LesnoyStanislav Lesnoy
Aleksey ShemesAleksey Shemes
Sergey KholmogorovSergey Kholmogorov
Dmitriy MartynovDmitriy Martynov

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