Short Circuit
After a lightning bolt gives it human emotions and intelligence, 'Number 5' escapes from an experimental electronics firm and finds refuge at the home of an animal-loving pacifist, who is convinced that the mechanical man is an extraterrestrial.
18 August 1934, USA
24 August 1958, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
31 August 1940, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
21 November 1960, Long Island, New York, USA
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10 April 1954, Pasadena, California, USA
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16 November 1966, Inglewood, California, USA
25 August 1939, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
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27 November 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 January 1942, Detroit, Michigan, USA
15 July 1935, New York, USA
27 August 1944, Port Arthur, Texas, USA
24 August 1935, Hattieburg, Mississippi, USA
10 February 1947, Claremore, Oklahoma, USA
27 March 1940, Warren, Ohio, USA
31 July 1937, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
April 02, 2014
John Badham's Pinocchio story is sweet, silly and now charmingly old-fashioned.
April 02, 2014
One of the stranger ironies to be found in Hollywood these days is that some of its most resourceful directors use high-tech wizardry and state-of- the-art movie technology to make films that rail against the tyranny of science.
April 02, 2014
Number Five is the real star of this energetic film. Sheedy, Guttenberg and company are just supporting players.
April 02, 2014
No movie with Austin Pendleton can be all bad, but this one makes a game try.
April 02, 2014
A film that demands emotional connections with a robot whose voice is one of the most annoying ever produced. Give us Hal, R2-D2 or a barber shop quartet of Daleks any day.
April 02, 2014
The film has nowhere to go except to give us a predictable initial confrontation between Guttenberg and Sheedy over military weapons.
July 06, 2010
Scripters get credit for some terrific dialog that would have been a lot less disarming if not for the winsome robot and Sheedy's affection for it. Guttenberg plays his best goofy self.
April 02, 2014
Youngsters will love this hip spoof on hardware movies.
January 01, 2000
It's basically a kid's movie, and quite possibly the kids will like it. But they'll have to be fairly young kids.
May 20, 2003
The movie, which has the clean, well-scrubbed look of an old Disney comedy, is nicely acted by Miss Sheedy, who demonstrates a light-comedy touch not unlike Amy Irving's [and] Mr. Guttenberg.
