D.A.R.Y.L.

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 51% of users liked it
    (8,949 ratings)

Barret Oliver stars as robot boy Daryl (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform). The film begins with an intense chase through hairpin mountain roads as a helicopter chases after a racing automobile and the driver of the car shoves a young boy out of the door. The child is rescued and is adopted by… More

PG,
Directed By
Genres
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Jun 14, 1985 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

    The main problem with this thing (besides the direction and the writing and, oh what the heck, the special effects, the acting, and the score). . .

  • Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

    Do guilty pleasures get any more guilty or any more pleasurable

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Nicki M


    Astounding to see there is an 80's movie left that I haven't seen! I have to say that I enjoyed this vastly more than my recent revisiting of The Goonies! Barett Oliver was such a cute child actor. It really is a shame he had a reasonably short movie career. Here he plays… More

  • AJ V


    Gosh, I saw this such a long time ago, I don't remember it, I should watch it again some day.

  • Candy R


    Daryl is a boy genius who lives with his foster parents. The government soon come after him.

  • Dean !


    An ok family 80's action/drama film.

  • Ross C


    Mostly memorable for the scene where the Daryl flies the SR-71 Blackbird, what a moment to see a kid in the '80s. I used to get parts of D.A.R.Y.L. confused with Flight of the Navigator - a similar storyline where a kid becomes "wanted" by the government.

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