Deadly Friend

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        5*****skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent * No Strong Language * No Sexual Situations *</B></div> <div> <B>* No Nudity * Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1986/Color/91 Min./Warner Home Video & Warner Brothers & Pan Arts & Layton Films/Rated </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Wes Craven</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Bruce Joel Rubin</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Charles Bernstein</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Robert Sherman</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Patrick Kelley</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the novel "Friend" by Diana Hensell</B></div> <div> <B>Special effects by Peter Albiez</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Paul Conway...Matthew Laborteax (Little House on the Prarie)</B></div> <div> <B>Samantha......Kristy Swanson (Ferris Bueller's Day off)</B></div> <div> <B>Tom...........Michael Sharrett</B></div> <div> <B>Jeannie.......Anne Twomey</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Johanson..Russ Marin</B></div> <div> <B>Sgt. Volchek..Lee Paul</B></div> <div> <B>Carl..........Andrew Roberto</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The robot makes cute sounds annd is reminiscent of the blithering boob from lost in space. Bee Bee's brain is a small printed circuit board with quite unexceptional chips in it. This circumstance will trouble a viewers who have trouble with bad science. Along similar lines, it is mysterious that Sam is so strong after being reanimated--Miss Parker dies by getting her head knocked of with the basketball. And why doesn't she rot when she's turned off?  All in all, this is sunday morning fare--the kind of thing many of us are guilty of enjoying when the mood is right. If you sneak a few teen angst films on lazy sundays, yuou might be a bit sucked in by this. In a juvenile way, you might even like the mumbling bee bee in the way you like the robot of short circuit--when no one is watching. Tom's incessent fainting is just plain a good gag. Speaking of Tom, it is interesting that Tom decides this relationship is too much and just bags out on Paul--not a common move in teen angst, but all too human. There are moments of shock--witness Bee Bee's confrontation with Miss Parker on Halloween. Another problem is that the horror music is a bit too much. This film couldn't decide whether it was a sunday afternoon teen-romp, which surely has its place, or a horror movie with some very questionable premises. The Frankenstein motif may be too ponderous for the computer who wore tennis shoes meets Short Circuit. Bee Bee's dark side, hinted at from the beginning, is not much explored. We think the latter elements are a bit of a mistake. There is some interest in watching reanimated Samantha sort out who she is in traditional Frankensteinian style. Does't quite count as fare for the whole family. The ending tries to explain Samantha's physical prowess but it succeeds only in making the viewer shake his head. Nonetheless, the film manages a very nice pace.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A common thief is foiled in his attempt to rob a VW van by the cute but potentially murderous bee bee the robot, the product of young Paul Conway's genius. Paul meets Sam who Bee Bee likes and her father who he doesn't. Bee Bee and Paul quickly become enemies with some local motorcyclists, but Bee Bee humiliates the leader and they get out of the scrape. Sam comes by, but her mean father soon drags her out--it appears a beating is coming. A ball goes into mean Miss Parker's porch and she confiscates it. Bee Bee is not pleased. The kids decide to go into miss Parker's yard on halloween--at Tom's urging--and Bee Bee is unceremoniously shot to death by the snickering Miss Parker. After dinner over Paul's Sam tries to sneak in, but her father staggers over and strikes her. The fall leaves her brain dead. The plan is to take Bee Bee's Central chip and plant it in Samantha. Tom steals the keys in the hospital from his father, and Sam is brought back in a hasty operation,  Sam returns to finish business with her father, and soon after Miss Parker's turn comes with similar results. Soon the chase is on for Samantha.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>