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Directed by | Simon Wincer |
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Produced by | John Heyman |
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Cinematography | Frank Watts |
Edited by | Adrian Carr |
Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
Production company | World Film Services |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $10 million[1] |
Box office | $7.8 million[2] |
D.A.R.Y.L. is a 1985 science fiction adventure film directed by Simon Wincer and written by David Ambrose, Allan Scott, and Jeffrey Ellis. It stars Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer, and Barret Oliver. It follows a seemingly normal young boy who turns out to be a top secret, military-created robot with superhuman abilities.
The film was theatrically released in the United States and Canada on June 14, 1985, by Paramount Pictures, and in the United Kingdom on June 20, 1985, by Columbia Pictures through Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb. For his performance, Oliver won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.