Weird Science is a 1985 teen film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Leslie Mann. The film's producer Joel Silver acquired film rights to the pre-Comics Code Authority 1950s EC Comics magazine Weird Science, from which the plot is developed as an expansion and modernization of the basic premise in Al Feldstein's story "Made of the Future" in the fifth issue. The title song...
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Weird Science is a 1985 teen film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Leslie Mann. The film's producer Joel Silver acquired film rights to the pre-Comics Code Authority 1950s EC Comics magazine Weird Science, from which the plot is developed as an expansion and modernization of the basic premise in Al Feldstein's story "Made of the Future" in the fifth issue. The title song was written and performed by American New Wave band Oingo Boingo.
Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are average, disenfranchised teenagers with low social standing at their Shermer, Illinois high school; in the opening scene we see them being pantsed in front of a gymnasium full of beautiful girls. Frustrated that they can't score with real girls, they hack into a government computer to create their dream woman based on the data of, among others, various photomodels, Albert Einstein and David Lee...
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