Cloak and Dagger is a 1984 film starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman.

Plot

Thomas plays Davey Osbourne, an 11 year-old whose mother has died and is being raised by his father, played by Coleman, who is wrapped up in his military career. Davey and his young friend Kim (Christina Nigra ) are playing video games at their friend Morris' (Bill Forsythe ) shop. Morris sends the two children on an errand, where Davey witnesses a murder. Right before the victim dies he gives Davey a Cloak and Dagger video game cartridge and says that the cartridge contains important military secrets. However, Davey gets in trouble when the police and no one else believe his story.

It is at that point that the viewers learn that Davey is in the company of an imaginary friend, Jack Flack, also played by Coleman. Now, the spies are in hot pursuit of Davey. They place a bomb in Kim's walkie-talkie. Davey is being followed by The Macready's, an elderly couple, (played by real-life husband and wife Jeanette Nolan and John McIntire ). They appear to be helpful but after Mrs. Macready removes her glove Davey realizes they are anything but. Davey must race to defuse the bomb, but finds himself on a plane with the MacReady's, the man of whom is brandishing a gun.

Video game tie-in

Critical to the movie's plot is an Atari video game called Cloak and Dagger . The game was under development using the title Agent X when the movie producers and Atari learned of each others' projects and decided to collaborate. This collaboration was part of a larger phenomenon at the time of movies featuring video games as critical plot elements (as with Tron and The Last Starfighter), and of video game tie-ins to the same movies (as with the Tron games for the Intellivision and other platforms).

Prior to the Agent X/Cloak and Dagger game's collaboration, the movie was to feature the game Donkey Kong.

External links

• Cloak and Dagger page on the Internet Movie Data Base.
• FAQ about the Atari 5200 version of Cloak and Dagger , including discussion of the movie tie-in.