DARYL - The extraordinary
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | DARYL - The extraordinary |
| Original title | DARYL |
| Country of production | UK , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Simon Wincer |
| script |
David Ambrose , Allan Scott , Jeffrey M. Ellis |
| production | John Heyman |
| music | Marvin Hamlisch |
| camera | Frank Watts |
| cut | Adrian Carr |
| occupation | |
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DARYL is an American film directed by John Heyman in 1985. Barret Oliver plays the young android . The German cinema premiere fell on March 13, 1986.
action
An apparently orphaned boy is picked up alone on a road in a wooded region and handed over to the youth authorities. Since no parents can be identified, the boy is entrusted to a foster family, Andy and Joyce Richardson. He is lovingly looked after and develops into a model boy, always friendly, helpful and without blame, at the same time highly intelligent and extremely attentive.
After a while, his alleged parents report, who have all the necessary papers to prove their status. It turns out that the boy is an artificial life form that was released from the research center by some of the scientists involved in order to lead a normal life. At this point the film begins in the wooded region. The research, funded by the Pentagon, was aimed at a super-intelligent and ice-cold perfect soldier. When the military find that their research project, D ata A nalysing R obot Y outh L ifeform as develops feelings love, fear and love of chocolate pudding, a liquidation is to take place. In the course of the adventurous escape that followed, Daryl, as the android is called, steals a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird supersonic spy plane , which causes him to lose his "life" (drown) when it crashes. A doctor involved in the development of DARYL comes to the hospital and reactivates the apparently lifeless boy, because an android cannot drown. He had shut down to maintain the illusion.
Awards
Barret Oliver won the Saturn Award in 1986 and was nominated for the Young Artist Award . The film received another nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Adventure Film .
Reviews
"Modern computer fairy tale about an android that cleverly mixes tension, humor and feelings and appeals to human values in a sympathetic way."
Web links
- DARYL - The Extraordinary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- DARYL - The Extraordinary at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DARYL - The Extraordinary. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 30, 2017 .