STAR KID

STAR KID (vt THE WARRIOR OF WAVERLY STREET [working title]). Manny Coto, dir., script. USA: Trimark / Manny Coto Productions (prod.), 1997.

SF family adventure (IMDb). A boy named Spencer finds an alien "cybersuit." Designers of suit wished to avoid RoboCop look for something "more humanistic, biomechanical," something "Spencer, as well as the audience could relate to. Spencer has a running conversation with this suit he is driving and they learn something from each other." We quote James Van Hise, "Warrior of Waverly Street: A kid in a Cybersuit defends the planet from aliens," Cinefantastique 28.9 (March 1997): 11, source for this citation (along with IMDb). Rev. Steve Biodrowski, Cinefantastique 29.10 (Feb. 1998): 53.