D.A.R.Y.L.
“He can fly a jet, race a car and outsmart a computer. The government created him and now they want him destroyed.”
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.
Genres
Family, Science Fiction, Adventure
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How D.A.R.Y.L. performed
Budget
$10.0M
Worldwide Gross
$7.8M
Gross Profit
−$2.2M
Return
0.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$922K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~42/58, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (28% of the domestic run, typical for Family) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Daryl
Barret Oliver
Daryl
Joyce Richardson
Mary Beth Hurt
Joyce Richardson
Andy Richardson
Michael McKean
Andy Richardson
Dr. Ellen Lamb
Kathryn Walker
Dr. Ellen Lamb
Elaine Fox
Colleen Camp
Elaine Fox
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Josef Sommer
Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Howie Fox
Steve Ryan
Howie Fox
General Graycliffe
Ron Frazier
General Graycliffe
Mr. Nesbitt
David Wohl
Mr. Nesbitt
Turtle
Danny Corkill
Turtle
Sherie Lee Fox
Amy Linker
Sherie Lee Fox
Mr. Bergen
Ed Grady
Mr. Bergen
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