: D.A.R.Y.L.
I heard someone mention this the other day and I realized that thought I’d vaguely heard of this 80s film, I’d never actually seen it. It’s about a lost boy with amnesia who shows up in a small mountain town. He’s bit strange, really smart but doesn’t know obvious things like how to catch ball thrown at him. It turns out (eventually) that he’s a robot. The best parts of the film were him bonding with his foster family as they learn to love him, and the sadness when his “real” parents (government scientists) come to take him back. After that things get a little too actiony with the boy having to escape and things feel a little forced and Hollywoody, but it’s not a terrible movie. Some of the child acting is terrible, the video game sequence is hilariously dated, and I didn’t buy a lot of the boy’s absurd robot capabilities (like him somehow retrieving extra dough from an ATM machine without actually doing anything but typing on the numeric keypad), but this film still holds up surprisingly well. Rather neat and sweet. It made me think, “They don’t make movies like this any more.” Made today, this thing would focus far more on the special effects and kid escaping the government facility, and it would lose out on the best parts, which were the family scenes. Fascinating.
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