WEIRD SCIENCE

'''WEIRD SCIENCE. John Hughes, dir. and script.''' USA: Universal 1985.

In effect, an updating of L. del Rey's "Helen O'Loy" (q.v. under Fiction), combining with the motif of a male-made female robot elements from Frankenstein films, WARGAMES, ROAD WARRIOR, RISKY BUSINESS, any number of teen exploitation flicks, and the TV show I Dream of Jeannie—plus musical citations to other films. Two teenage nerds use a computer to create (or conjure up) "Lisa." Interesting for tongue-in-cheek use of computers alongside blatant magic, for an adolescent fantasy of sex, power, status, and revenge.