Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters is a 1982 madeforTV movie directed by Steven Hilliard Stern about a group of college students and their interest in a fictitious roleplaying game RPG of the same name.

The film was adapted from a novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. Jaffe had based her 1981 novel on inaccurate newspaper stories about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III from Michigan State University in 1979. Media accounts differed substantially from Egberts actual story. William Dear, the private investigator on the case, explained actual events and the reasons behind the media myth in his 1984 book The Dungeon Master. Jaffe wrote her novel in a matter of days because of a fear that another author might also be fictionalizing the Egbert investigation.citation needed The working title for the film was Dungeons amp Dragons,citation needed but CBS dropped it in favor of the novels title.citation needed The film premiered on CBS in 1982. It stars Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace and Chris Makepeace. The film is currently available on VHS tape and DVD. ........

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