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Short Circuit (1986)
Directed by John Badham
“Something wonderful has happened... No. 5 is alive.”
Science Fiction, Comedy, Family · 1h 38m
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
Cast
Ally Sheedy
Stephanie Speck
Steve Guttenberg
Newton Crosby
Fisher Stevens
Ben Jabituya
Austin Pendleton
Howard Marner
G.W. Bailey
Skroeder
Brian McNamara
Frank
Tim Blaney
Number 5 (voice)
M
Marvin J. McIntyre
Duke
J
John Garber
Otis
P
Penny Santon
Mrs. Cepeda
Vernon Weddle
General Washburne
Barbara Tarbuck
Senator Mills
Crew
- Director
- John Badham
- Writer
- Brent Maddock
- Director of Photography
- Nick McLean
- Original Music Composer
- David Shire
- Editor
- Frank Morriss
- Producer
- David Foster, Lawrence Turman, Gregg Champion
Details
- Release date
- 1986-05-09
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Comedy, Family
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- TriStar Pictures, PSO, The Turman-Foster Company
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Box office
- $40,697,761