Short Circuit
Something wonderful has happened... No. 5 is alive.
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab.Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does.In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
- Director
- John Badham
- Signature
- Wonder · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $41M
Who's in it
Cast
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After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Short Circuit returned 4.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $10M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $41M
- Release date
- May 9, 1986
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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