While Hall was established as the '80s nerd extraordinaire thanks to his roles in the Hughes classics Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, Mitchell-Smith wasn't as well-known, and the comic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hughes penned the script in just two days while also working on The Breakfast Club. In fact, both films are set at Shermer High, ...

Weird Science placed two teen underdogs at the center of the narrative. The story resonated with adolescent fans of comedy and sci-fi. The action kicks off when two friends, Gary and Wyatt, are ...

Were you Seen at the "Weird Science" Halloween gala for STEM education, hosted by Ace & John Blackburn, on Oct. 26, 2024, at Union Station in Albany? Were you Seen at the "Weird Science" Halloween ...

The 1986 film, which saw two teenage boys use the magic of computer science to bring their dream girl to life, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 2 — four decades after first being ...

Ilan Mitchell-Smith, who famously played Wyatt in 1985's 'Weird Science,' makes a cameo in the season premiere of 'The Goldbergs.' But that's not all -- he also teased a wild idea for a sequel to the ...

I was eight years old when I saw Weird Science in 1985 and I tried to recreate their experiment by hooking my sister’s Barbie doll up to wires and plugging them into an outlet. I’m lucky I didn’t burn ...

Anthony Michael Hall has raised generations of kids and teens with movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. As just a kid himself when he was cast in those iconic John ...

Oh, 1985, what a year, such weirdness! 2025 is the Weird Science 40th anniversary. Let’s revisit the movie – with techie dreams, awkward teenage fantasies, and, uhh, creating the “perfect woman” (on a ...