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D.A.R.Y.L.
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
1985 · Directed by Simon Wincer · 100 min · Family · Science Fiction · Adventure · 9 frames
Tagline
He can fly a jet, race a car and outsmart a computer. The government created him and now they want him destroyed.
Crew
- Written by: Allan Scott, David Ambrose, Jeffrey Ellis
- Cinematography: Frank Watts
- Music: Marvin Hamlisch
- Production design: Alan Cassie
- Produced by: John Heyman
Cast
- Barret Oliver as Daryl
- Mary Beth Hurt as Joyce Richardson
- Michael McKean as Andy Richardson
- Kathryn Walker as Dr. Ellen Lamb
- Colleen Camp as Elaine Fox
- Josef Sommer as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
- Steve Ryan as Howie Fox
- Ron Frazier as General Graycliffe
- David Wohl as Mr. Nesbitt
- Danny Corkill as Turtle
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, World Film Services
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $7,840,873
- Themes: computer, autopilot, forest, south carolina, family relationships, robot, boy genius, childhood, gate, piano
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