Short Circuit
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's plot centers upon an experimental military robot that is struck by lightning and gains a human-like intelligence, prompting it to escape its facility to learn more about the world. The film stars Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton and G. W. Bailey, with Tim Blaney as the voice of the robot named "Number 5". A sequel, Short Circuit 2, was released in 1988, directed by Kenneth Johnson.
Plot
NOVA Laboratory robotics experts Newton Crosby and Ben Jabituya have developed several prototype robots called S.A.I.N.T. (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport) for the U.S. military to use in Cold War operations, though they would rather seek peaceful applications of the robots. After a live demonstration for the military, one of the units, S.A.I.N.T. Number 5, is struck by lightning arcing through the lab's power grid. This scrambles its programming and makes it sentient, resulting in its escape from the NOVA facility.
More details
author | Brent Maddock S. S. Wilson |
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contentLocation | Oregon |
director | John Badham |
editor | Frank Morriss |
events | artificial intelligence |
genre | comedy science fiction |
keywords | cold war food truck grasshopper lightning montana seclude sentience sentient spare part the three stooges three stooges tracking device united states army us military wait who\'s johnny |
musicBy | David Shire |
publisher | TriStar Pictures |
theme | military science fiction |