D.A.R.Y.L.

During the car chase, Daryl and the doctor are supposed to be somewhere in Northern Virginia, but they're clearly in Orlando, Florida.

One shot includes a billboard for RonJon's Surf Shop (at around 1h 11 mins).

Another shot shows an exit sign for Orange Blossom Trail (at around 1h 12 mins).

Daryl and the doctor switch drivers while running from the police.

When the car spins around, through the rear window an adult is driving and a child is in the passenger seat (at around 1h 12 mins).

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird can't be started like an ordinary fighter jet; it needs two Buick V8 "Wildcat" engines to "bump" start the engines.

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird has no sealants for the fuel tanks.

The friction generated by high speeds heats up the skin, making it expand significantly.

Expansion gaps are needed to prevent the skin from buckling or breaking due to the stress, like the tar strips in concrete roadways that allow the slabs to expand without damage.

Therefore, after several supersonic sprints to heat the skin enough to fill the gaps, the plane takes off on nearly empty tanks, and refuels five minutes into flight.

Otherwise, it will run out of fuel.

When Daryl gets cash out of the ATM, the baseball kids in the background get out of the car twice (at 26:17 and 26:24).

When Joyce teaches Daryl how to play the piano, Daryl demonstrates his grasp of the piece's rhythm (at around 6 mins) by saying, "Whole note, two half notes, and four quarters to a measure," a perfect description of 4/4 time.

However, they play a piece in 6/8 time.

The SR-71 was designed to fly at 80,000 ft and cruise at Mach 3.

Special flight suits were designed to withstand the heat and decompression of ejection at that height and speed.

Daryl is shown in a standard oxygen mask and flight gear.

At 80,000 feet, ejection in that gear would have been lethal.

No USAF aircraft have ever been equipped with a self-destruct mechanism.

When Daryl ejects from the SR-71, he floats down to the water while attached to his seat.

Ejection seats automatically separate.

The parachute is not designed to support the combined weight of the pilot and the seat during the descent, and landing with the seat could fatally injure the pilot.

Just after the Mach meter in the cockpit passes Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) at 01:26:48, the aircraft passes over a small town at very low altitude, probably less than a thousand feet.

At that altitude and speed, the overpressure of the sonic boom path would shatter windows, and possibly do greater damage.

Daryl flies above Mach 2 at tree-top level.

The SR-71 could only be flown at high Mach speeds above 40,000 feet.

At the beginning of the film, the 4-door, blue Chevy Nova Dr.

Mulligan is driving (00:44 to 01:07) turns into a 2-door, gray Oldsmobile Cutlass (01:23 to 01:31), and back into a Nova (01:31 to 02:33).

When Turtle crashes while he is playing Pole Position on his sisters' computer, the score on screen reads 39,750 (at around 14 mins).

Turtle tells his sister that his score is 41,500.

Then, she pulls up the highest game score which is 41,500 (at around 24 mins).

During the car chase, when DARYL and Dr Stewart swap places in the car, DARYL can barely see over the top of the steering wheel, but at the end of the chase, the wheel is about at the level of his chin.

When Daryl, Turtle, and Sherie Lee play 'Pole Position' it may be thought that the game runs far too fast for a 1980s console.

While this is factually true, Daryl is likely manipulating the game console, which is alluded to several times during the rest of the movie, e.

the ATM hack, him playing 2 games simultaneously while watching 4 different television programs.

Also he lowers the volume of all the screens without using a remote control, again with his mind.

When a car crashes off the edge of a cliff, an elderly couple pick up a smartly-dressed young boy named Daryl (Barret Oliver). When no-one claims him, he is left in the care of cutesy, middle-class suburban couple Joyce (Mary Beth Hurt) and Andy Richardson (Michael McKean), who foster him and look after him as if he were their own.

A slice of 80's nostalgia, but not much else.D.

Very 80s.Is just weird to me, I watched this one 35 years ago and so many things stuck in my head.

I love this movie, it's awesome as Michael McKeen puts it. Excellent movie with a lot to appreciate and love, and teaches you what it means to be human.

I really loved this film as a kid.

Mulligan drives Daryl while being chased by a helicopter. Daryl is released into the woods and found by an elderly couple.

The engineer in me has trouble with the implausibilities and outright impossibilities in the film (Examples: it's not possible to increase a bank balance simply by pushing ATM buttons, and it's impossible for one person to start up and fly an SR-71), but what makes the film good is its emphasis on the love the foster parents have for DARYL, and the whole concept of accepting him as a real person.

During the movie Dr. Stewart made a comment to Joyce, Andy and Turtle that DARYL was conceived in a test-tube and that only his brain is a computer while the rest of him is human.

Although the script of the film is somewhat incomplete and there are some parts of the film that could be improved; I even found the film quite good, with good actors, good special effects and the history of the film is quite original. Of course it's not the best movie ever (it's a long way from being), but I still liked the movie anyway.