D.A.R.Y.L. 1985

D.A.R.Y.L. 1985
1h 39min | Family , Sci-Fi | 14 June 1985 (USA)
Storyline:
A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.
User review:
DARYL is an enjoyable and thought-provoking kids' film. The central premise is fantastic and high-concept – a rare thing for children's films. Daryl, a military experiment that combines the body and senses of a child with a microchip for a brain, is set free from his creators and settles in mid-America suburbia with a loving adoptive family. The high-jinks that result from an apparently normal ten-year-old who has super-intelligence living in normal surrounds is light, predictable and great fun in patches.
The coup for this movie, however, is the thought-provocation that arises from the evolution of Artificial Intelligence lifeforms to the point when you can no longer tell them apart from humans. This complex issue is dealt with sensitively and thoughtfully in the context of a film not aimed at philosophers or AI scientists (clearly, however, the topic continued to prey on the mind of one of the screenwriters – Ambrose went on to write the excellent novel, Mother of God, which is the "grown-up" heir apparent to DARYL).