Clip description / Inspired by the bluesy atmosphere, Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) tells a group of barflies his story. John Hughes’s third directorial effort, Weird Science, follows in the tradition of his previous teen-centered films, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith play the wannabe hipster Gary and his nebbish weak-willed best friend, Wyatt, a pair of high-school geeks who are hapless with members of the opposite sex. Using Wyatt’s computer, they create what they believe is the ideal woman. A lightning storm brings that woman to life, and she takes the form of Kelly Le Brock. Lisa sets about building their self-confidence, but trouble begins brewing when Wyatt’s cruel, military-minded older brother, Chet (Bill Paxton), begins to realize that something is not as it should be. Hughes would finish his cycle of high-school themed films with his next movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
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TM & © Universal (1985) Cast: D’Mitch Davis, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Fred D. Scott, Vince Townsend Jr., Chino ‘Fats’ Williams, Kelly LeBrock
Director: John Hughes
Producers: Joel Silver, Jane Vickerilla
Screenwriter: John Hughes
