Short Circuit
NOVA Laboratory robotics experts Newton Crosby and Ben Jabituya 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 Crosby and Ben 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. It then escapes the NOVA facility.
| MPAA Rating: | PG |
| Genre: | Comedy, Family, Sci Fi |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Lawrence Turman, Dennis E. Jones, Dana Satler Hankins, Gary Foster, John W. Hyde, David Foster, Gregg Champion, Mark Damon |
| Directed By: | John Badham |
| Written By: | Brent Maddock, S.S. Wilson |
| Cast: | Jack Thompson, Fred Slyter, Shay McLean, Tom Lawrence, Austin Pendleton, Barbara Tarbuck, Herb Smith, Marguerite Happy, Vernon Weddle, Sergio Kato, Steve Guttenberg, Robert Krantz, John Garber, Tim Blaney, Marvin J. McIntyre, G.W. Bailey, Marjorie Card Hughes, Ally Sheedy, Fisher Stevens, Billy Ray Sharkey, Brian McNamara, Penny Santon, Jan Speck, Howard Krick |
| In Theaters: | May 09, 1986 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 38 minutes |
| Production: | TriStar Pictures, Producers Sales Organization (PSO), Turman-Foster Company |
| Budget: | $15,000,000 |
| Box Office: | $40,697,761 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
Followers: 0