MOVIE
Short Circuit
Something wonderful has happened... No. 5 is alive.
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
DOCUMENTARY PROFILE
The context around Short Circuit
Short Circuit is organized as documentary viewing with connections to Science Fiction, Comedy, Family. The page links its factual genre context to creators, release era and related documentary discovery.
- Release
- 1986-05-09
- Rating
- PG
- TMDB score
- 6.6/10
- Original language
- EN
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United States of America
- Studio
- TriStar Pictures, PSO, The Turman-Foster Company
People behind the title
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Topicsartificial intelligence (a.i.)lightningoregon, usarobotmilitarychildlike
This title is available from the shared catalog, but it is not published as an index-targeted page for this specialty edition.