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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 ''[[
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* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Joey. It's difficult to properly explain, but essentially he rushes through a door at the center of the magician's maze and enters the spirit realm to greet his dead father. Then it cuts to the police finding him comatose in the woods. ER doctors try and fail to revive him. All of the characters (even the bullies!) say their tearful goodbyes to him, and then randomly he just resurrects for an instant happy ending.}} The US cut is more overt about this, whereas the German version leaves his survival only a suggestion.
* [[Gang of Bullies]]: Initially there's only two or three but the group soon swells to roughly six, including a little girl.
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* [[Kill It With Fire]]: {{spoiler|Fletcher, ultimately.}}
* [[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.}}
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