Cloak & Dagger

Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. It is a remake of the 1949 film The Window. Thomas plays Davey Osborne, an 11-year-old who lives in San Antonio with his father Hal Osborne, played by Coleman. His mother has recently died, leaving just him and his father, Hal Osborne—a military air traffic controller who has problems relating to his child. Davey is a lonely child and is still gri... more

Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. It is a remake of the 1949 film The Window. Thomas plays Davey Osborne, an 11-year-old who lives in San Antonio with his father Hal Osborne, played by Coleman. His mother has recently died, leaving just him and his father, Hal Osborne—a military air traffic controller who has problems relating to his child. Davey is a lonely child and is still grieving over his mother, so he immerses himself in the fantasy world of Cloak & Dagger, a game which exists in both role playing and video forms. Davey has one friend, Kim, (Christina Nigra) a girl who lives nearby with her single mother. Davey is interested in the world of espionage and his hero is the character Jack Flack from the game Cloak & Dagger. He wants to live an action-packed life like Jack Flack and he carries around a water pistol as his "gun" and a softball as his "grenade". Davey spends much of his free time playing Cloak & Dagger... less