D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Following on the success of E.T., there were quite a few clones involving a being that changes the lives of ordinary families for the better, only to have scary government agents out to destroy the...
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Based on a true story, Josh Waitzkin is a 7-year-old boy who becomes fascinated by the game of chess after watching the locals play speed chess in a New York park. After picking up...
Good Will Hunting (1997)
A 20-year-old prodigy (Damon), also an orphan and hoodlum, is a janitor at MIT. With a great gift for mathematics, and self-taught in many other sciences, he gets taken in by a brilliant math...