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(1986) |
aul is a teenager genuis who just moved to a new town with his mom. His mom is so nice. he just got accepted to the local College to study artificial intelligence. Paul even has a cool robot named BeeBee.
Paul meets the wicked cute girl next door Samantha. Everyone calls her Sam. Sam has a abusive father who is drunk most of the time. The Town has the usual sterio types. Local punks and a nasty neigerbor who loves her shotgun and takes teenagers Basketsballs when they go over her fence.
On Halloween Paul and his friends think it would be fun to scare the old lady by ringing her doorbell. The old lady doesn't find the prank funny and shoots Paul's robot. This is just the beginning of the end of Paul's near perfect life. A month later after Paul share's his first kiss with Sam, she gets knocked down a flight of stairs by her controlling drunk dad. She hits her head so hard that she becomes braindead. When Paul finds out he decides he has to save Sam by implanting BeeBee's computer chip into Sam's brain.
Dead is dead though. Sam kills everyone who did her wrong. The scenes between Kristy Swanson and Matthew Laborteaux were endearing and sweet. You can feel that Paul really loves Sam.
Anne Twomey and Michael Sharret are great in their supporting roles. It is too bad that the studio wanted to go with more of A Nightmare on elm st feel because this could had been a classic.
Richard Marcus character is almost a ripoff of what Freddy Kruger might have been like if he were a father. The death scenes are okay. there is a neat special effect scene where a woman gets her head taken off with a basketball.
I still really like this movie even though it has flaws.
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I saw this movie when it hit the theaters. Overall it was a fun movie to watch. I liked the main characters. Kristy Swanson is sweet as Sam. The movie made me want to read Friend by Diana Henstell. I like gore as much as the next person but this movie didn't really need it. I think the studio's wanted to ride on the earlier sucess of A Nightmare On Elm St. The ending was kind of weird and farfetch. The soundtrack is pretty decent. It sets the mood. I like how Sam feels sad that she is a robot.
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The voice of B.B. the robot is provided by Charles Fleischer who appeared in Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and later provided the voice of Roger Rabbit in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" in 1988.  -Thanks to Mazie
Grossed $8,988,731 in the USA.
This was Kristy Swanson's first major role as the murderous Samantha. Swanson was just sixteen years old. This was the same year she had a bit part in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". -Thanks to Samantha Joy
The movie's screenplay, based on the novel "Friend", was adapted by Bruce Joel Rubin who later won an Academy Award for his original screenplay of "Ghost" (1990).
Matthew Laborteaux played Albert on popular family show "Little House on the Prairie."
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Movie is based on the book called "Friend" by Diana Henstell which was later re-titled to "Deadly Friend" after the success of the movie.
The film was censored heavily by the MPAA. It had to be submitted thirteen times (according to Screams and Nightmares: the films of Wes Craven). -Thanks to Sburt4
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Deadly Friend's score was composed by Charles Bernstein and released on LP on the Varese Sarabande label (Cat #:STV 81291).
Track listing:
1. BB's Theme (02:05)
2. BB's Song (01:48)
3. Love Waves (01:56)
4. Halloween (01:31)
5. BB's Funeral (01:35)
6. Hot Head In Bed (01:26)
7. Back Porch Romance (01:20)
8. Elvira, Mad again (01:56)
9. Nutcracker Street (00:59)
10. Daddy Dearest (02:30)
11. Slam Dunk (01:10)
12. BB Gunned (01:10)
13. Goodnight Kiss (01:11)
14. Change of Minds (02:06)
15. Just Choking (01:47)
16. Born Again (01:16)
17. Spotting Pop (01:22)
18. Body Snatchers (01:47)
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Year:
| 1986 | Studio:
| Warner Brothers | Director:
| Wes Craven | Starring:
| Mathew Laborteaux,
Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey
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| Horror | | | | + | Kristy Swanson and Matthew laborteaux as the leads
Anne Twomey and Michael Sharrett in the supporting roles
the robot is very cool
soundtrack set the mood
| - | gory in some scenes when it didn't need to be
somes parts seem like a ripoff of Elm St
The ending
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