Tag: The Assassination Game

This article is about 1982 film directed by Nick Castle. For the 1992 movie "The Assassination Game" produced by Roger Corman, see Crisis in the Kremlin.

TAG: The Assassination Game, also known as Everybody Gets It in the End,^[2] is a 1982 American action comedy film written and directed by Nick Castle and starring Robert Carradine and Linda Hamilton in her first feature film starring role.^[3] It is based on the game Assassin.

TAG: The Assassination Game
Film poster
Directed by	Nick Castle
Written by	Nick Castle
Produced by	Dan Rosenthal Peter Rosten
Starring	Robert Carradine Linda Hamilton Kristine DeBell Perry Lang John Mengatti Michael Winslow Frazer Smith Xander Berkeley Bruce Abbott
Cinematography	Willy Kurant
Edited by	Tom Walls
Music by	Craig Safan
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date	April 23, 1982 (1982-04-23)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million[1]

Plot

At an American college, a group of students play a game with suction cup dart toy guns similar to The 10th Victim where a pair of students are assigned to "kill" the other one first by shooting him with a dart. One student, Loren Gersh (Bruce Abbott) lives purely to play the game. His expertise in "killing" all of his opponents and not being "killed" himself, making him a renowned master.

When one of his cringing victims accidentally drops his dart gun, it goes off and hits Gersh, "killing" him. Faced with the embarrassment of losing his reputation by a geek getting lucky, Gersh has a mental breakdown. He kills his opponent with a real gun, setting him on the goal to use actual weapons and real killing from then on. His opponents in the game are unaware of Gersh's new rules.

As his hold on sanity continues to deteriorate, Gersh's demeanor and wardrobe slowly transforms from an average student to a James Bond-type assassin.

Cast

• Robert Carradine as Alex Marsh
• Linda Hamilton as Susan Swayze
• Kristine DeBell as Nancy McCauley
• Perry Lang as Frank English
• John Mengatti as Randy Simonetti
• Michael Winslow as Gowdy
• Frazer Smith as Nick Carpenter
• Xander Berkeley as Connally
• Bruce Abbott as Loren Gersh
• Ivan Bonar as Patterson
• Scott Dunlop as Wallace
• Jim Greenleaf as Swanson
• Charlene Nelson as Charlene
• Forest Whitaker as Gowdy's Bodyguard

Production notes

One of Gersh's planned victims is Susan Swayze, played by Linda Hamilton. The two performers met on the set of the film and subsequently married.^[4]

References

1. "AFI|Catalog".
2. "FORGOTTEN FILM: T.A.G.: THE ASSASSINATION GAME (1982)". Talking Moviezzz. 2007-05-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
3. "CNN LARRY KING LIVE Interview With Linda Hamilton Aired October 14, 2005 - 21:00 ET". CNN.com - Transcripts. Retrieved 28 June 2014. KING: That was from a 1982 film, her first film, acting with her first husband, Bruce Abbott. That was titled 'Tag: The Assassination Game.'
4. "Linda Hamilton: Bruce Abbott". Lycos Retriever. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 28 June 2014.

External links

• Tag: The Assassination Game at IMDb
• Tag: The Assassination Game at Rotten Tomatoes