Cloak & Dagger (1984)

Directed by

Richard Franklin

Genre

action film, crime film, mystery film, spy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 159 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy who loves to play spy games stumbles onto a real crime. He must convince the adults around him that he is telling the truth about what he witnessed.

suspensefuladventurousnostalgicplayfullightheartedmysteriousinnocent

What happens

Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 American spy adventure film directed by Richard Franklin, and starring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, and Michael Murphy. It was written by Tom Holland and based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, "The Boy Cried Murder", which had been filmed as The Window (1949). It was originally released in a double feature with The Last Starfighter on July 13, 1984, and was released separately on August 10, 1984. The film grossed $9.7 million in the United States. Thomas was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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