Gotcha! (1985 film)

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For other uses of "Gotcha", see Gotcha (disambiguation).

Gotcha!
Gotcha! movie poster
Directed by	Jeff Kanew
Produced by	Paul G. Hensler
Written by	Paul G. Hensler Dan Gordon
Starring	Anthony Edwards Linda Fiorentino
Music by	Bill Conti Randy Newman
Cinematography	King Baggot
Editing by	Michael A. Stevenson
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	May 3, 1985
Running time	101 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	N/A
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Gotcha! is a 1985 action film, starring Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino. The movie is directed by Jeff Kanew, who also directed Anthony Edwards in Revenge of the Nerds in 1984.

The movie later had a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System for use with the Zapper light gun.

Taglines: Jonathan started out trying to score. And he ended up being the target.

He's a young college student on vacation in Europe for the first time. She's his first real affair. A beautiful, mysterious woman who thinks danger is one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs there is.

His first time may be his last.

[edit] Summary

A college student named Jonathan is in the adventure of his life...literally. He is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-80s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player, by use of a (harmless) paintball gun. After he wins big, Jonathan is off to Germany and meets a very beautiful woman named Sasha, who is interested in him because he is a virgin. They both go to East Germany and end up getting split up, and Jonathan has to get back to the west with Russian spies on his tail. After Jonathan gets home, he finds the game is still going on, and a canister of film is in his backpack. Then Sasha re-appears.

As Jonathan plays a UCLA student, much of the film was shot on location on the UCLA campus.