Weird Science details
Movie Details:
- Director: John Hughes
- Produced By: Universal
- Year: 1985
- Run Time: 94 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG13
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Comedy
- Filmed In: Color
- Key Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson, Robert Downey, Jr., Robert Rusler, Full Credits
John Hughes's third directorial effort, Weird Science, follows in the tradition of his previous teen-centered films, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith play the wannabe hipster Gary and his nebbish weak-willed best friend, Wyatt, a pair of high-school geeks who are hapless with members of the opposite sex. Using Wyatt's computer, they create what they believe is the ideal woman. A lightning storm brings that woman to life, and she takes the form of Kelly Le Brock. Lisa sets about building their self-confidence, but trouble begins brewing when Wyatt's cruel, military-minded older brother, Chet (Bill Paxton), begins to realize that something is not as it should be. Hughes would finish his cycle of high-school themed films with his next movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. by Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- computers
- fantasy
- friendship
- genie
- nerd
- rampage
- technology
- teenagers
- wish
Themes:
- Experiments Gone Awry
- When the Parents Are Away
- Wishes Come True
- Inventors
