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Cloak & Dagger

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Henry Thomas (Actor), Dabney Coleman (Actor), Richard Franklin (Director) Rated:

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Davey Osborne is an imaginative youngster who loves role-playing games, and who often enlists the aid of his best friend, an imaginary super-spy named Jack Flack. One day he witnesses a real murder of an FBI agent who passes a videogame called "Cloak & Dagger" to him before he dies. When the police come, the body is gone, and no one will believe him, including his father, Col. Hal Osborne. Soon Davey finds himself up to his neck in hairbreadth escapes, real bullets, and slam-bang action as the hitmen close in. Can Jack save him before time runs out? Cloak & Dagger stars Henry Thomas of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Dabney Coleman in a dual role of Jack and Davey's father, and Michael Murphy.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 7.56 x 0.67 inches; 3.19 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2220307
Director ‏ : ‎ Richard Franklin
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Dolby, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 42 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 1984
Actors ‏ : ‎ Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, William Forsythe
Producers ‏ : ‎ Allan Carr
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0003JAONG
Writers ‏ : ‎ Tom Holland
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Esther

Fun kids' suspense movie--though very dated

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2017

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I watched this movie as a kid and I remember thinking the danger and the suspense were phenomenal. It's a bit of a different watch in this day and age. Though, I think the acting is still pretty good, considering it is a cheesy kids movie. The main character stumbles upon a murder and finds himself in possession of a top secret game cartridge that has CIA secrets encoded into it. He and his friend are chased by bad guys with guns throughout the movie. The main character struggles to communicate with his widowed father and relies on the support of his imaginary friend (played by the same actor as his father). The technology of this movie is worth a laugh as it definitely doesn't hold up to today's standards, but it is a nice walk down memory lane. This movie still makes me happy as it was a favorite from my childhood. I would watch it again for sure.

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Revisited Childhood Favorite and Was Not Disappointed!

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2020

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I remember being at my Dad's house one summer. He had HBO, and for the month I was visiting him this movie was playing on repeat constantly. I was around 10 years old and so of course the movie made an impact on me.

Fast Forward 35 years and I have revisited this personal favorite from my childhood for the first time since that summer. The most important question is does the movie hold up after all this time? The answer is, surprisingly, it does quite well. Dabney Coleman plays a military man grieving the death of his wife while at the same time supporting his son, played by E.T.'s Henry Thomas. Thomas constantly converses with the imaginary Jack Flack (also played with a clear eye for symbolism by Dabney Coleman). Both actors do solid work with their admittedly somewhat limited subject matter. The story is a fairly straightforward bad guys chase good guys for an important thing, good guys lose thing and/or get captured and have to get it back and/or get away from the bad guys.

This movie does not try to be more than it is, and what it is is a fun story of a boy with a vivid imagination, seeking alongside his father to find a way forward after losing his mother. My 7-year old found a few spots a little intense, though he can be overly sensitive at times.. Still, despite this being so clearly aimed at families, this is the 80's, and a PG rating is not what it once was. This means people getting shot with a rather small amount of blood showing and talk of 'blowing his head off", and other threatening language that might not be in a PG film today.

The whole family enjoyed the movie and the 4-star rating was seconded by my wise and lovely wife, for whom this was a first viewing.

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"Jack Flack always escapes!"

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2016

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Cloak and Dagger was released in 1984, barely sneaking in ahead of the newly imposed PG-13 rating. So, instead of getting a silly kid's movie in the vein of Agent Cody Banks, Spy Kids, or Shark Boy and Lava Girl, we're treated to an adventure that offers thrills with weight to them. Pre-teen Davey Osborne's (Henry Thomas) plight will be familiar to even the most casual Hitchcock fan. Young Davey witnesses a cold-blooded murder and no one believes him, so he has to go on the run, pursued by relentless enemy spies. There's also the McGuffin, a plot device popularized by Hitchcock. This time out, the McGuffin is a video game cartridge containing a microchip that falls into Davey's hands, and so now here's a kid with access to government schematics for an experimental invisible bomber plane.

Peel away the layer of espionage intrigue and you'll observe a tumultuous father-and-son relationship. Davey's dad (Dabney Coleman) is a single parent who has a handful in his traumatized son. See, Davey's still dealing with the loss of his mom. And his dad, a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, is preoccupied with work and barely has time to spend with him and, more importantly, doesn't seem to know how to get thru to the kid. Most times, Davey loses himself - gets all worked up - in his vivid imaginary world. There, he gets to hang with his favorite video game character, the superspy Jack Flack a.k.a. Agent X. And, in the real world, when Davey intercepts that radio transmission and witnesses that murder, it's Jack Flack (also Dabney Coleman) who manifests to help him out, never mind that he's only a figment of Davey's imagination.

So, Cloak and Dagger has things to say about a child's coping with loss and a parent's struggle to connect with him. It's a strong emotional undercurrent that drives the narrative and helps ground all the fantastical cloak and dagger stuff. I still recall Davey's dad's frustration over Davey's fixation on Jack Flack and the poignant appeal he makes to his son. I can't cite the exact quote but it's about those who put food on the table or fix your bicycle, that they're heroes, too.

Cloak and Dagger is rated PG, but you wouldn't know it. Davey is - and ***SPOILERS*** for the rest of this sentence - chased, shot at, nearly stabbed, threatened with getting his kneecaps blown off, held hostage, kills a man... and this movie's a family movie! I appreciate that. I liked Home Alone, but, for the tone and level of realism Cloak and Dagger was trying to sustain, it would never have done to have cartoony buffoons as the baddies. The antagonists here had to be credible and menacing to sell the conflict and that sense of jeopardy. Hitchcock would be proud. There are several set pieces that are reminiscent of what Hitchcock famously wrought, that suspenseful sequence on the river boat ride, to name just one.

I thought Henry Thomas - so memorable two years earlier as Elliott in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - was perfect as Davey. Few kids could pull off being so natural onscreen as he was. If this movie were made today, Davey would be depicted as a genius kid - and the villains as clumsy oafs played for laughs. Thankfully, Davey here is a regular kid forced to mostly rely on his smarts to get out of scrapes - okay, once in a while, Jack Flack would pop in to offer advice. Coleman was also very good in the dual roles of intrepid secret agent and concerned father, although it took me a minute to get used to him not playing the heel for once.

Cloak and Dagger is an overlooked gem from my childhood, a movie fueled by a smart screenplay and strong direction. It blends the elements and methodologies of grown-up thrillers and children's adventures. It refused to dumb down the violence for the sake of being politically correct, and I appreciated that as a kid watching this in the theater. It's a movie that blurs the line between fantasy and reality because, in the end, you may question just how imaginary Jack Flack is (because he ends up doing and saying some stuff). There's a sort of neat retro rush in seeing those primitive and dated and obsolete Atari 80 bit video games and those clunky computers. And, as someone who'd visited San Antonio a few times, it's a frisson of nostalgia what's felt during Davey's nervous stroll down the Riverwalk.

One nagging thing (and ***SPOILERS***): Just how did Davey's dad escape the detonated airplane?

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Jenna75

Still fun after all these years

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019

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I remember seeing this in the theater when I was a kid and loving it, so I showed it to my kids. They were engaged throughout, loving the exciting, funny, action-packed story and the "old time" video games, cars, telephones and walkie talkies. And 35 years later it's still a great movie with a story that holds up well and is well acted. Definitely check it out if you haven't, and definitely check it out if you want some fun nostalgia.

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JustMellow

You know your kids best

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019

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My nine year old rated this movie a 4.5 rating! He said it's his new favorite movie. Though the movie seemed cheesy and predictable to me, my son did not notice. My favorite part was the positive father/son message at the end of the movie. This movie is very different from the spy/kid movies of today (by today standards it's PG-13). If I had know, I probably would have not let him see it. But I don't have any regrets, turns out he was mature enough to handle the themes. You know your kids best. There is murder, blood (not too graphic) , and....

*SPOILER ALERT*

The kid ends up shooting and killing one of the characters in self-defense.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2019

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Excellent film

JPC

Great movie for kids... and adults

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2013

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We all remember Henry Thomas for his role in ET.
He's just as good in this.
And seeing the movie after all these tears reminded me why I wanted to get a copy for my grandkids.
Fabulous!

j n marsh

Nostalga at its best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2015

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I remember getting this film for my Son in the 70s and enjoyed it myself so got it for myself this time

ajg3

Great film

Reviewed in Canada on July 18, 2021

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This was one of my favourite movies as a kid...and I really wanted to watch it again. Since I couldn't find it on any of my streaming services, I thought I would buy the DVD. Its came quickly and the quality was perfect. Of course sometimes movies are better in your memory than watching it again some 25 years later....but for what it was, and when the movie was made...it was great! Thanks :)

Alexander Dinges

Ich bin Gehörlose , schade kein Film „Incorrect Region und „ Was ist los ? „

Reviewed in Germany on June 3, 2021

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Ist schon da am 17.4.2021 „Claak & Dagger „ ist ja

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