Trivia for
Weird Science (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• John Hughes wrote this film in two days.
  
  
• Anthony Michael Hall makes a reference to a girlfriend from Canada. His character "Brian" from The Breakfast Club (1985) also makes a reference to an imaginary girlfriend from Canada.
  
  
• Wyatt's computer is a Memotech MTX512 with an FDX add-on.
  
  
• Shermer, the fictional town in which many of John Hughes' movies are set, is actually the name of a street that runs through several of the communities that Hughes used as backdrops in his films.
  
  
• The Time magazine that Gary and Wyatt accidentally create a nuclear missile from is the 31 January 1983 issue.
  
  
• Kelly LeBrock's character name was inspired by Apple Computer's first GUI computer, the Apple Lisa.
  
  
• Kelly LeBrock initially turned down the role of Lisa, as she was vacationing in France at the time and was "having too much fun riding horses on the beach".
  
  
• The piano girl (Kym Malin) actually performed her own stunts.
  
  
• The goodbye scene between Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Kelly LeBrock moved John Hughes to tears.
  
  

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