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A 1985 German film written and directed by [[Roland Emmerich]] prior to making his big move to Hollywood.
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One day, Joey's life is turned upside-down when he decides to explore the condemned, burned-out house of a long dead magician. Here, he stumbles across an old ventriloquist dummy named Fletcher, and takes him home. But when Joey isn't around, much to Charlie the robot's dismay, Fletcher opens his eyes... and ''growls''. The evil dummy has powers of his own and becomes hellbent on preventing Joey from [[Title Drop|making contact]] with his dad's ghost for some reason, and just generally causing chaos and mayhem.
It was filmed in the US with English-speaking German actors and released there under the title ''Making Contact''. A longer cut, dubbed into German, was released to theaters in Emmerich's native Germany under the title ''Joey''. The German cut runs twenty minutes longer than the US one and has a more ambiguous ending than the American version. Although it contains a different story from them, it contains numerous references to the earlier films of [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[George Lucas]] (in particular ''[[Star Wars]]'' and ''[[E.T. the
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Bizarrely, averted early on, then subverted and finally ultimately played depressingly straight as the film progresses and focuses more and more on the children.
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Big Eater]]: The chubby bully.
* [[Character Title]]: The German version only.
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* [[Gang of Bullies]]: Initially there's only two or three but the group soon swells to roughly six, including a little girl.
* [[High-Class Glass]]: Fletcher wears a monocle.
* [[Kill It
* [[The Maze]]: There's one underneath the old house, where Fletcher traps the kids. {{spoiler|It may or may not have just been imaginary though.}}
* [[New Powers
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Played totally and insanely straight. They actually retreat from a gang of nine-year olds flinging paint at them.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Martin, Joey's teacher.
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* [[Save the Villain]]: Well, more like save the annoying [[Jerkass]] schoolkids. When Fletcher endangers the bullies and traps them in the old house, Joey sucks it up and actually rescues their sorry behinds.
* [[Silent Bob]]: Fletcher mostly just growls and snarls, but when he ''does'' talk, what he has to say is usually pretty disturbing:
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'''Fletcher''': A game. }}
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Joey's death is treated as this}}. Subverted in that [[Disney Death|he gets better]].
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