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Weird Science (1985
1985 in film

Events* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton....
) is a teen film
Teen film

The teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the Plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst and alienation....
 written and directed by John Hughes
John Hughes (film director)

'John Hughes, Jr.' is an United States film director, film producer and writer, responsible for some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science , The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains & Automob...
 and starring Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
, Kelly LeBrock
Kelly LeBrock

Kelly LeBrock is an American-born Canadian-Irish people actress and model , known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red and the following Weird Science ....
 and Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Ilan Mitchell-Smith is an United States assistant professor of English language at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, but he is best known as an actor and co-star of the movie Weird Science ....
. The film's producer Joel Silver acquired film rights to the pre-Comics Code Authority
Comics Code Authority

The Comics Code Authority is part of the Comics Magazine Association of America , and was created to regulate the content of American comic book....
 1950s EC Comics
EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an United States publisher of comic books specializing in crime fiction, horror fiction, satire, war novel and science fiction from the 1940s through the 1950s, until censorship pressures prompted it to concentrate on the seminal humor magazine Mad , which became a major p...
 magazine Weird Science
Weird Science (comic)

Weird Science was a science fiction anthology comic book that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. Over a four-year span, the comic ran for 22 issues, ending with the November-December, 1953 issue....
, 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
Weird Science (song)

"Weird Science" is a song that was written and performed by Oingo Boingo. It is the theme song to the Weird Science and Weird Science . It was released on the film's soundtrack, as well as Oingo Boingo's 1985 album, Dead Man's Party in a different version....
 was written and performed by the American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 New Wave
New Wave music

New Wave is a genre of rock music which originated from the late 1970s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s....
 band Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
.

Plot
Two teenage nerds in Shermer, IL., Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Ilan Mitchell-Smith is an United States assistant professor of English language at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, but he is best known as an actor and co-star of the movie Weird Science ....
), unpopular and unable to meet girls on their own, use Wyatt's computer to design the perfect woman.






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Weird Science (1985
1985 in film

Events* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton....
) is a teen film
Teen film

The teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the Plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst and alienation....
 written and directed by John Hughes
John Hughes (film director)

'John Hughes, Jr.' is an United States film director, film producer and writer, responsible for some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science , The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains & Automob...
 and starring Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
, Kelly LeBrock
Kelly LeBrock

Kelly LeBrock is an American-born Canadian-Irish people actress and model , known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red and the following Weird Science ....
 and Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Ilan Mitchell-Smith is an United States assistant professor of English language at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, but he is best known as an actor and co-star of the movie Weird Science ....
. The film's producer Joel Silver acquired film rights to the pre-Comics Code Authority
Comics Code Authority

The Comics Code Authority is part of the Comics Magazine Association of America , and was created to regulate the content of American comic book....
 1950s EC Comics
EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an United States publisher of comic books specializing in crime fiction, horror fiction, satire, war novel and science fiction from the 1940s through the 1950s, until censorship pressures prompted it to concentrate on the seminal humor magazine Mad , which became a major p...
 magazine Weird Science
Weird Science (comic)

Weird Science was a science fiction anthology comic book that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. Over a four-year span, the comic ran for 22 issues, ending with the November-December, 1953 issue....
, 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
Weird Science (song)

"Weird Science" is a song that was written and performed by Oingo Boingo. It is the theme song to the Weird Science and Weird Science . It was released on the film's soundtrack, as well as Oingo Boingo's 1985 album, Dead Man's Party in a different version....
 was written and performed by the American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 New Wave
New Wave music

New Wave is a genre of rock music which originated from the late 1970s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s....
 band Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
.

Plot


Two teenage nerds in Shermer, IL., Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall
Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Ilan Mitchell-Smith is an United States assistant professor of English language at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, but he is best known as an actor and co-star of the movie Weird Science ....
), unpopular and unable to meet girls on their own, use Wyatt's computer to design the perfect woman. Lacking enough computing power, they hack into a US Government mainframe
Mainframe computer

Mainframes are computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications, typically bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, Enterprise Resource Planning, and financial transaction processing....
 and use its power to create a computer simulation of "the perfect woman" in order to place her in "real life sexual situations" and see how she reacts. A bizarre electrical storm (à la Frankenstein
Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19....
, their inspiration) follows, and they find themselves unable to shut the computer off.

Mysteriously, the result is "Lisa" (Kelly LeBrock
Kelly LeBrock

Kelly LeBrock is an American-born Canadian-Irish people actress and model , known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red and the following Weird Science ....
), a real-life woman (who emerges from a red fog in the bathroom). She is a sexed-up but kind-hearted "80's babe" with Einstein's
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
 IQ, David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth is an United States Rock and roll vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the lead singer of Van Halen....
's attitude and inexplicable supernatural
Supernatural

The term supernatural or supranatural pertains to an order of existence beyond the scientifically visible universe. Religious miracles are typically supernatural claims, as are Spell and curses, divination, the belief that there is an afterlife for the dead, and innumerable others....
 powers. Self-aware from the moment of her creation, Lisa sets about revealing their inner coolness, transforming Gary and Wyatt from nerds into men through a series of wacky and bizarre adventures. Using her magic powers, she takes them to a blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 club, confronts Wyatt's domineering older brother Chet (Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton

William Archibald Paxton is an American actor and film director. He gained in popularity after his Movie star roles in the movies Apollo 13 and Twister ....
), and throws a giant party at Wyatt's upscale home. In the end, the boys get no sex from their mentor, but are seemingly on the path to a relationship with two cute girls their own age.

Cast


  • Anthony Michael Hall
    Anthony Michael Hall

    Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
     as Gary Wallace
  • Ilan Mitchell-Smith
    Ilan Mitchell-Smith

    Ilan Mitchell-Smith is an United States assistant professor of English language at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, but he is best known as an actor and co-star of the movie Weird Science ....
     as Wyatt Donnelly
  • Kelly LeBrock
    Kelly LeBrock

    Kelly LeBrock is an American-born Canadian-Irish people actress and model , known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red and the following Weird Science ....
     as Lisa
  • Bill Paxton
    Bill Paxton

    William Archibald Paxton is an American actor and film director. He gained in popularity after his Movie star roles in the movies Apollo 13 and Twister ....
     as Chet Donnelly
  • Suzanne Snyder
    Suzanne Snyder

    }}Suzanne Snyder is an United States actress, best known for her role of Debbie Stone in the movie Killer Klowns from Outer Space and two small roles in the popular sitcom Seinfeld....
     as Deb
  • Judie Aronson
    Judie Aronson

    Judith M. Aronson is an United States actress who has starred in many films and a television show. The television series in which she starred, was the short lived Pursuit of Happiness as Sara Duncan from 1987-1988....
     as Hilly
  • Robert Downey, Jr. as Ian
  • Robert Rusler
    Robert Rusler

    Robert Rusler is an United States film and television actor.Rusler was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of Maria Elena and Richard C. Rusler....
     as Max
  • Vernon Wells
    Vernon Wells (actor)

    Vernon George Wells is an Australian film and television actor who has built his career around action-type films, most often cast as a villain....
     as Lord General
  • Britt Leach
    Britt Leach

    Britt Leach is an United States character actor. He is best known for his role in the films Goin' South, Fuzz, The Last Starfighter, Weird Science , The Great Outdoors , Baby Boom , and Silent Night, Deadly Night....
     as Al Wallace, Gary's dad
  • Barbara Lang as Lucy Wallace, Gary's mom
  • Ivor Barry
    Ivor Barry

    Ivor Barry was a United Kingdom film and television actor.Born in South Wales, Barry served with the British Royal Artillery during World War II and completed his university studies prior to beginning his acting career....
     as Henry Donnelly, Wyatt and Chet's grandfather
  • Ann Coyle as Carmen Donnelly, Wyatt and Chet's grandmother
  • Michael Berryman
    Michael Berryman

    Michael John Berryman is an United States actor. He is famous for having a unique physical appearance, the result of Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, a rare genetic condition which prevents him from developing hair, sweat glands or fingernails....
     as Mutant Biker
  • John Kapelos
    John Kapelos

    John Kapelos is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the janitor Carl in The Breakfast Club.An alumnus of The Second City, Chicago, John Kapelos? theatrical work spans eight years from Second City?s Touring Company to six revues as a member of the famed Resident Company , and finally Second City?s critically acclaim...
     as Dino
  • Jill Whitlow
    Jill Whitlow

    Jill Whitlow is an United States motion picture and television actress who achieved her greatest recognition during the 1980s. She is best remembered by American audiences for her role in the 1986 cult horror film Night of the Creeps....
     as Susan, the Perfume Salesgirl
  • Wallace Langham
    Wallace Langham

    Wallace Langham is an American actor who has been seen on many famous television shows either in guest roles or starring roles. He is probably best known for his role as David Hodges in the popular American crime drama television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
     as Art (billed as "Wally Ward")
  • Renee Props
    Renee Props

    Renee Props is a United States actress and radio DJ who starred in many soap operas like Days of our Lives and As the World Turns. She is also known by Seinfeld fans as Lois in the episode The Race from the 6th season....
     as a member of The Weenies
  • Kym Malin
    Kym Malin

    Kym Malin is an United States model and actor. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1982 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar....
     as Girl Playing Piano


Reception


The movie is rated at 53 percent on the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films. The name derives from the historical clich? of throwing tomatoes and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad....
. Despite mixed reviews, the film has become a cult classic and is one of the most well-known films of the John Hughes high-school-in-the-80s genre.

TV series


A television show
Weird Science (TV series)

Weird Science is a mid-1990s United States comedy series made for television, a spin-off of the Weird Science of the same name....
 based on the film debuted in 1994 and ran for 88 episodes. Following the same basic plot as the movie it starred Vanessa Angel
Vanessa Angel

Vanessa Madeline Angel is an English model and actress. She is best known for playing the role of Lisa on the television series Weird Science ....
 as Lisa, Michael Manasseri
Michael Manasseri

Michael Manasseri is an American actor.He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Wyatt Donnelly in the TV series Weird Science . He also had a recurring role in the second season of the NBC sitcom Wings as young pilot Kenny McElvey....
 as Wyatt, John Mallory Asher
John Mallory Asher

John Mallory Asher is an United States actor, film director, screenplay and cinematographer.Asher was born in Los Angeles, California to actor Edward Mallory and actress Joyce Bulifant....
 as Gary, and Lee Tergesen
Lee Tergesen

Lee Allen Tergesen is an United States actor. He is known for his role as Tobias Beecher in HBO?s prison drama 'Oz '....
 as Chet.

Soundtrack


  1. "Weird Science
    Weird Science (song)

    "Weird Science" is a song that was written and performed by Oingo Boingo. It is the theme song to the Weird Science and Weird Science . It was released on the film's soundtrack, as well as Oingo Boingo's 1985 album, Dead Man's Party in a different version....
    " – Oingo Boingo
    Oingo Boingo

    Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
  2. "Turn It On" – Kim Wilde
    Kim Wilde

    Kim Wilde is an England pop singer.Wilde burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the new wave music classic "Kids in America ", which hit number two in the UK Singles Chart....
  3. "Deep in the Jungle" – Wall of Voodoo
    Wall of Voodoo

    Wall of Voodoo was a Rock music musical ensemble from Los Angeles, California best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone....
  4. "Tubular Bells
    Tubular Bells

    Tubular Bells is the debut vinyl record of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973. The late Vivian Stanshall provided the voice of the "Master of Ceremonies" who reads off the list of instruments at the end of the first movement....
    " – Mike Oldfield
    Mike Oldfield

    Mike Oldfield is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk music, ethnic or world music, European classical music, electronic music, New Age music and more recently dance music....
  5. "Tesla Girls
    Tesla Girls

    "Tesla Girls" is a song by United Kingdom band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released as the third single taken from their 1984 album, Junk Culture ....
    " – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records ....
  6. "Private Joy" – Cheyne
  7. "Wanted Man" – Ratt
    Ratt

    Ratt is an United States heavy metal music band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round ," "Wanted Man ," "Lay It Down ," "You're in Love " and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in the following decade, Ratt has been recognized...
  8. "Don't Worry Baby" – Los Lobos
    Los Lobos

    Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....
  9. "Forever" – Taxxi
  10. "Method to My Madness" – The Lords of the New Church
    The Lords of the New Church

    The Lords of the New Church were an England/United States post-punk Supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from prominent 1970s punk rock bands....
  11. "Eighties" – Killing Joke
    Killing Joke

    Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  12. "Why Don't Pretty Girls Look at Me" – Wild Man from Wonga
  13. "Nervous and Shakey" – The Del Fuegos
    The Del Fuegos

    The Del Fuegos were a garage-style pop band in the 1980s with lead singer Dan Zanes, guitarist Warren Zanes , bassist Tom Lloyd, drummer Brent "Woody" Giessmann and keyboardist Br....
  14. "The Circle" – Max Carl
    Max Carl

    Max Carl is an American rock singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. He is the current lead singer of the classic rock band Grand Funk Railroad. In addition, he spent several years as the keyboardist and lead singer for the mainstream rock band 38_Special_, for whom he co-wrote and sang lead on the hit song "Second Chance."...
  15. "Tenderness" – General Public
    General Public

    General Public was a Pop band, formed by former The Beat vocalists Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger....
  16. "Do Not Disturb (Knock Knock)" – The Broken Homes
  17. "Oh, Pretty Woman
    Oh, Pretty Woman

    "Oh, Pretty Woman" is a song, released in 1964, which was a worldwide hit for Roy Orbison. Recorded on the Monument Records label in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, it was written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees....
    " – Van Halen
    Van Halen

    Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....


Filming/Locations


The boys live in Highland Park, Illinois
Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park is a city in the Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois of Lake County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. The population was 31,365 at the 2000 census....
. The mall scene in Weird Science took place at Northbrook Court on Northbrook, Illinois
Northbrook, Illinois

Northbrook is a village located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois. The population was 33,435 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 34,190 as of 2005....
. It has since been heavily modified.

The exterior high school used was New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Illinois
Winnetka, Illinois

Winnetka is a very affluent village located approximately 19 mi north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois. It has a population of 12,419....
.

The car chase scene at the end of the movie takes place on St. John's Ave. in Highland Park. When they turn the corner, they are on Central Ave. in Highland Park.

The house from the movie was also used in Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 in film Cult film psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly , and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell....
 and Not Another Teen Movie
Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 in film comedy film released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of the teen film and other cinematic portrayals of adolescence which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades....
. It is located at 4252 Country club drive Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
.

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