Weird Science
It's all in the name of science...Weird Science.
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$7 500 000
Revenue
$38 934 048
Director
Actors
Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson, Barbara Lang, Ivor Barry, Ann Coyle, Robert Downey Jr.
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Joel Silver, Bill Damaschke
Operator
Matthew F. Leonetti
Composer
Ira Newborn
Artist
John W. Corso
Audition
Jackie Burch
Editing
Short description
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.
What's left behind the scenes
- In one scene of the film, Anthony Michael Hall talks about a girl from Canada. His character, Brian, from 'The Breakfast Club' (1985) also mentions a fictional girl from Canada.
- White's computer is a 'Memotech MTX512'.
- Gary and White accidentally create an atomic warhead using the cover of the January 31, 1983 issue of 'The Time' magazine.
- The heroine's name, Kelly LeBrock, Lisa (Lisa) is a nod to Apple's first computer with a graphical user interface, the 'Apple Lisa'.
- 'Weird Science' is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the film whose screenplay was created in the shortest amount of time. John Hughes wrote the script for this film in two days.
- 'Weird Science' is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the film whose screenplay was created in the shortest time. John Hughes wrote the screenplay for this film in two days.
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