Phantom of the Megaplex
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| Directed by | Blair Treu |
| Produced by | Joan Barnett Jack Grossbart Stu Krieger Christopher Morgan |
| Written by | Stu Krieger |
| Starring | Taylor Handley Jacob Smith Caitlin Wachs Corinne Bohrer Mickey Rooney |
| Music by | Bill Elliott |
| Cinematography | Derek Rogers |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | Disney Channel |
| Release date | November 10, 2000 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
The Phantom of the Megaplex is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie, produced by the Disney Channel. With a title and concept very loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera, the film concerns strange happenings at a megaplex on the night of a major movie premiere, Midnight Mayhem. The central character, played by Taylor Handley, is Pete Riley, the seventeen year old assistant manager of the theater. He has to cope with malfunctioning equipment, disappearing staff, and a broken popcorn machine, among other headaches. He investigates to see if the troubles are coincidence or the result of sabotage by a mysterious "phantom". The senior manager of the theater is played by Rich Hutchman, and Ricky Mabe, Julia Chantrey, Joanne Boland, J.J. Stocker, and Lisa Ng appear as other employees of the theater. Caitlin Wachs and Jacob Smith play the central character's younger siblings, and Heather and Jennifer Bertram appear as his girlfriend and her friend.
[edit] Plot
17-year-old Pete Riley works as the assistant manager at the local 26-screen Grand megaplex, a job that he loves and spends all his time doing. Rumor has it that the megaplex is haunted by a "phantom" of someone who was trapped inside the building when it was demolished in order to build the current megaplex. Pete, along with the senior manager, Shawn MacGibbon and the other employees (including Movie Mason, an old man who loves movies and thinks he works at the megaplex and is hated by Shawn) are working to keep the theater neat for the giant premiere gala that night where they are going to premiere "Midnight Mayhem" and are expecting the owner of the megaplex, Wolfgang Nedermayer to be among the guests. To Pete's disappointment, he has to drag along his younger sister and brother, Karen and Bryan, to the theater while their mother goes out on a date. He dumps the two of them into a movie so he can focus on setting up for the premiere ,but problems arise causing delays. The other movies are having major screw-ups, and the screw ups are the title problems (like a movie-screen featuring a movie called "Cyclone Summer" has a giant fan moved into the movie room where not supposed to and blows everything as if it were a F-6 tornado). Pete, Karen, and Bryan work together and investigates and figure out that result of sabotage are responsible by the Phantom. When the Phantoms sabotages the room Midnight Mayhem is to play in, Pete is able to stop him after a brief fight and unmasks the Phantom, revealing it to be Shawn. Nedermayer fires Shawn and tells him that he will never work in another theater again. He then offers Pete the job of senior manager, something Pete has always wanted. Pete tells Nedermayer that he'd be honored, but yet turns it down. Inspired by Karen and Bryan from their help at exposing Shawn as the Phantom, Pete says that he realizes the importance of childhood and doesn't want to waste it anymore than he has and asks for the rest of the night off. Nedermayer agrees and even gives Pete money to take his girlfriend out for breakfast after the movie. Bryan comments that the only thing to make this night perfect would be 5-Star ending, which his mom's boyfriend offeres by proposing to her, and she says yes. As everyone goes in to watch the premiere, Movie Mason tells Bryan that he never really believed in a phantom, but the "Werewolf of the Megaplex", is an entirely different story in its own.
[edit] Cast
- Taylor Handley as Pete Riley, 17-year-old assistant manager of the theater
- Jacob Smith as Bryan Riley, Pete's perceptive 12-year-old brother
- Caitlin Wachs as Karen Riley, Pete's 13-year-old sister
- Corinne Bohrer as Mrs. Riley, Pete's mother
- John Novak as George, Mrs. Riley's new boyfriend
- Mickey Rooney as Movie Mason, elderly movie fan, his family opened the old theater before the megaplex. When the theater closed down and the megaplex was opened he thinks he works there, though doesn't, he comes to the megaplex everyday and everybody likes him except Shawn. He was a possible suspect of being the Phantom.
- Rich Hutchman as Shawn MacGibbon / The Phantom of the Megaplex: The Senior theater manager who is always worried about his job and dislikes Mason. To get noticed he disguises himself as The Phantom, haunting the entire Megaplex doing crazy things all over.
- Colin Fox as Wolfgang Nedermayer, the owner of the Megaplex. He was a possible suspect of being the Phantom.
- Ellen-Ray Hennessy as Tory Hicks
- Carlo Rota as Tyler Jesseman, the director of Midnight Mayhem. He was a possible suspect of being the Phantom.
- Eric Hempsall as Lamonica, new manager
- Ricky Mabe as Ricky "Rules", theater worker, has the correct procedure for anything and does everything by the book.
- Julia Chantrey as "Scary" Terri, theater worker, loves telling scary stories about the Megaplex.
- Joanne Boland as Hilary "Honey", theater worker, described as a grandma in a teenage body due to her caring personality.
- J.J. Stocker as "Question" Mark, theater worker, a bit slow-witted, always asking questions
- Lisa Ng as "Racy" Lacy, theater worker, known for being quick in movement and personality.
- Joe Pingue as Merle, the theater's head projectionist, even on a simple question he has a habit of saying too complicated techno answer in return. He was a possible suspect of being the Phantom.
- Heather Bertram as Caitlin, Pete's girlfriend
- Jennifer Bertram as Lisa, Caitlin's best friend
- Jeff Berg as Donny Hollie, Pete's rival. He was a possible suspect of being the Phantom.
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