/lit/ - Literature

Back in the early 80s I have this memory of hearing about a film. It was about an impressionable young man, maybe autistic, who was a Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast, but the tone fo the film was serious and the young man wanders off into the city and adult stuff happens and you (me) won’t be seeing that one! I recall that it was Tom Hanks first feature film. It’s been stuck in my head all these years that this is a real film, and I just missed it because it was too adult and not very interesting to me when I did grow up. At one point I thought I found it, but Cloak and Dagger (pictured) certainly isn’t it.
Even though it doesn’t exist I still think of that wide open melancholia feeling when I first had this misunderstanding