1985 · comedy · sci-fi · teen
Weird Science
Directed by John Hughes1h 33m1985
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.
Our read: Weird Science (1985) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · sci-fi · teen entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- funny
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