Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4
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Release Date: Jun 14, 1985 Wide
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Barret Oliver stars as robot boy Daryl (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform). The film begins with an intense chase through hairpin mountain roads as a helicopter chases after a racing automobile and the driver of the car shoves a young boy out of the door. The child is rescued and is adopted by Joyce (Mary Beth Hurt) and Andy (Michael McKean) Richardson, a well-meaning, childless couple. It is only after the Richardsons have adopted Daryl and find that the child can't stop hitting home runs
Jun 14, 1985 Wide
Oct 19, 2004
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (5) | DVD (5)
The main problem with this thing (besides the direction and the writing and, oh what the heck, the special effects, the acting, and the score). . .
Do guilty pleasures get any more guilty or any more pleasurable
Astounding to see there is an 80's movie left that I haven't seen! I have to say that I enjoyed this vastly more than my recent revisiting of The Goonies! Barett Oliver was such a cute child actor. It really is a shame he had a reasonably short movie career. Here he plays daryl, who is part robot, part human. Yes, it's
January 30, 2008Super Reviewer
Gosh, I saw this such a long time ago, I don't remember it, I should watch it again some day.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
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