Cloak & Dagger

Cloak & Dagger (1984)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 55% of users liked it
    (8,778 ratings)

Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him,… More

PG, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By
Richard Franklin
Genres
Action & Adventure, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Aug 10, 1984 Wide
On DVD
Nov 23, 2004
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Renee Schonfeld, Common Sense Media

    Fantasy-adventure is exciting, but full of dark mayhem.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    So-so Dabney Coleman kid fantasy-adventure yarn.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    The great Dabney Coleman in TWO different roles? All right!

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Ken S


    An espionage obsessed 12 year old (Elliot from ET) fights some really under qualified bad guys who are trying to get there hands on an Atari game with top secret information embedded in it. Fairly entertaining, I'd recommend it to kids under 13, but being they don't know… More

  • AJ V


    Amazing, this is kids action movie! I loved it, it's a lot of fun, and very suspenseful.

  • Adam M


    It has good cinematography and Dabney Coleman is great in his double role, but the boy lead, Henry Thomas, seems a little autistic at times. This is a brave kids movie in that the hero is so wrapped up in his spy-videogame world that we know it's probably not healthy, even if the… More

  • Justin Y


    The "Cloak and Dagger" expression refers to situations regarding secrecy, espionage, etc. "Cloak & Dagger" is also the name of a video game from the early 80s. Both of these are involved in this movie, which is titled, oddly enough, <i>Cloak &… More

  • Chris G


    Cloak and Dagger is the story of a young San Antonio boy (Henry Thomas) who becomes so wrapped up in his hero super spy Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman) he mixes the fantasy world of Flack with the reality of being a kid. Things begin to heat up when young Davey ends up in the middle of a… More

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