In this comedy, Corey Woods (Fred Savage) sneaks his emotionally disturbed little brother, Jimmy (Luke Edwards) out of the home he has been placed in, and sets off on a trip across the country. Along the way they team up with young Haley (Jenny Lewis), and together they discover that the silent Jimmy has a gift for playing video games. With this newfound information, the trio sets off for a video game competition in California, pursued by a number of concerned relatives. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him, Thomas turns disconsolately to a computer game called "Cloak and Dagger" and begins to fantasize, imagining that he is in cahoots with secret agent Jack Flack, also played by Coleman. Finally coming to grips with the fact that the mythical Jack Flack cannot help him this time, Thomas takes on the spies with the help of his schoolmates, who are also "Cloak and Dagger" addicts. Cloak and Dagger is a heavily disguised remake of 1949's The Window; both are based on the Cornell Woolrich story -The Boy Cried Murder. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Category Glamorized Spy Film, Childhood Drama, Family-Oriented Adventure, Road Movie, Paranoid Thriller
- Theme: Fathers and Sons, Fantasy Life, Whistleblowers, Sibling Relationships, Mental Illness, Runaways
- Studio: Universal Studios
- Run Time: 03 hr 22 min
- Language: English
- Subtitle Language: English
- Picture Format: widescreen
- Lead Actor: Fred Savage, Henry Thomas, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater, Dabney Coleman
- Supporting Actor: Gene Ross, Jason Oliver, Jim Pirri, Preston Scott Lee, Ray Bickel, Roy Conrad, Shelby Leverington, Sonny Dukes, Thomas Stanczyk, Valana C. Hatter, Zed James Frizzelle, William Thompson, Wendell Wright, W.K. Cowan, T. Dan Hopkins, Steve Fromholz, Robert Traynor, Norman Bennett, Nicholas Guest, Marisa de Simone, Louie Anderson, Linden Chiles, Jacqueline Lear, Earl Bullock, David D'Ovidio, Chuck Skinner, Beth Grant, Al Gomez, William Marquez, Terri Lynn Neish, Tom Kerley, Stephen Grives, Rowdy Metzger, Robert DoQui, Jackey Vinson, Doris Hargrave, Dea McAllister, Charles Beall, Roderick Dexter, Corey Rand, Gregor Hesse, Blair Anthony, Lee Arenberg, Vincent Leahr, Robert Curtin, Karen Leigh Hopkins, William Forsythe, Wendy Phillips, Sam McMurray, Tim Rossovich, Eloy Casados, Will Seltzer, Jenny Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, Luke Edwards, John McIntire, Christina Nigra, Michael Murphy, Gene Skillen, Eleese Lester, Frank McRae, Gary Moody
- Director: Richard Franklin, Todd Holland
