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He can fly a jet, race a car and outsmart a computer. The government created him and now they want him destroyed.
Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 364 ratings · 14 Jun 1985 · English · 1h 40m · Released
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
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