

Short Circuit
Film · 98 min · English · 1986
Directed by John Badham
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 h…
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TriStar PicturesReference entity — not verified- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- TriStar Pictures
- Country of origin
- United States
- Catalogued
- 2026-09-27
- Registry ID
- MRR-1986-FLM-908445
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