An American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.
Back in the mid to late 80s there were drastically different pricing for VHS movie rentals. New releases could cost $5-$8 for a single 24 hour rental. Some rental stores had a middle tier price/time structure as well....then there was the garbage tier rentals of 99 cents for anywhere from 24 hours to a week.
Gymkata was one of those movies that would regularly be found on the 99 cent garbage tier movies. When you're scraping together coins for a to afford a 99 cent rental for Friday night, you want to get one of the best garbage tier movies you can.
Gymkata was always a regular at the top of the list of favorite garbage tier rentals! We rented it many times!
