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Bookmark this pageShort Circuit (1986)
Director: John Badham
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From Time Out Film Guide
A message film to please all ages. Goofy Guttenberg plays a brilliant but totally reclusive inventor who has constructed robots with the power to nuke whole cities. At a military demonstration, the fifth of the series is struck by lightning, and receives the intelligence that it is alive. Eager to escape those who wish to terminate it, Number Five - a multi-purpose kitchen implement on wheels - takes refuge with fanatical animal lover Sheedy, and the chase is on. Cuteness is never far off, though Badham has enough sense of pace, and the robotics are sufficiently inventive, to keep the laughs coming. Only Guttenberg's tongue-twisted Asian sidekick (Stevens) is off-key.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: John Badham
Producer: David Foster, Lawrence Turman
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, GW Bailey, Brian McNamara full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 98 mins
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