Movie
1986
Short Circuit is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by John Badham and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. The film centers on an experimental military robot that is struck by lightning and gains a human-like artificial intelligence, prompting it to escape its facility to learn more about the world. It stars Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, and G. W. Bailey;…
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John Badham is one of the most underrated Hollywood directors in the last decades of 20th Century. His filmography was characterised not only by many successes, but also by great diversity, with films ranging from sometimes unpleasantly adult dramas like *Saturday Night Fever* to family friendly feather-light entertainment that could have been at home with Disney. An example of the latter is *Short Circuit*, 1986 sc…More
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