Story of movie Joey 1985 Film : Joey, also known as Making Contact, is a 1985 West German horror-fantasy film from Centropolis Film Productions (now Centropolis Entertainment). The film was co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich.
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| Directed by | Roland Emmerich |
| Produced by | Willi Segler Alena Rimbach James Melkonian Executive producer Klaus Dittrich |
| Written by | Roland Emmerich Hans J. Haller Thomas Lechner |
| Starring | Joshua Morrell Eva Kryll |
| Music by | Paul Gilreath |
| Cinematography | Egon Werdin |
| Edited by | Carl Colpaert Alan Toomayan Tomy Wigand |
Production company | Centropolis Film Productions |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German (Shot in English) |
Screenplay
The plot concerns a 9 year-old boy named Joey (Joshua Morell) who loses his father, but makes contact with what he believes is his deceased parent via a small phone and is terrorized by a ventriloquist dummy named Fletcher who is possessed by a demon and summons other demons and evil forces to threaten his friends/mother/enemies/city as only the boy must go into the spirit world to destroy this evil in a battle of good vs. evil. The boy develops the power of telekinesis, which soon gets out of hand.
Joey was released in North America as Making Contact. The North American version was heavily cut and ran 79 minutes. Joey was subsequently released as a 2 disc DVD set featuring the original 98 minutes version along with the edited North American cut. In 2016, Kino Lorber has announced a Blu-ray with new high definition transfer.
