History Film / CloakAndDagger

* FreudianTrio: The three spies; Haverman, Alvarez, and Rice fall under this trope as the Id, Ego, and Superego, respectively, in terms of the extent of their impulsive behavior, as they select some very public San Antonio landmarks to conduct their dirty spy business. [[spoiler: This is precisely the order in which they are killed. Haverman is killed in a car wreck after he carelessly drives the van into a jewelry store [[HoistByHisOwnPetard while intending to run down and kill Davey]]. Alvarez is accidentally killed by Rice during the aforementioned "[[BatmanGambit Crossfire]] [[DeadlyDodging Gambit]]" when the latter spy tries to shoot Davey instead. And finally, after picking up the dead Alvarez's gun, Davey kills Rice out of rage when backed into a wall when he thinks Rice has killed Jack Flack]].

* FreudianTrio: The three spies; Haverman, Alvarez, and Rice fall under this trope as the Id, Ego, and Superego, respectively, in terms of the extent of their impulsive behavior, as they select some very public San Antonio landmarks to conduct their dirty spy business. [[spoiler: This is precisely the order in which they are killed. Haverman is killed in a car wreck after he carelessly drives the van into a jewelry store [[HoistByHisOwnPetard while intending to run down and kill Davey]]. Alvarez is accidentally killed by Rice during the aforementioned "[[BatmanGambit Crossfire]] [[DeadlyDodging Gambit]]" while the latter spy tries to shoot Davey instead. And finally, after picking up the dead Alvarez's gun, Davey kills Rice out of rage when backed into a wall when he thinks Rice has killed Jack Flack]].

* FreudianTrio: The three spies; Haverman, Alvarez, and Rice fall under this trope as the Id, Ego, and Superego, respectively, in terms of the extent of their impulsive behavior, as they select some very public San Antonio landmarks to conduct their dirty spy business. [[spoiler: This is precisely the order in which they are killed. Haverman is killed in a car wreck after he carelessly drives the van into a jewelry store [[HoistByHisOwnPetard while intending to run down and kill Davey]]. Alvarez is accidentally killed by Rice during the aforementioned [[BatmanGambit "Crossfire]] [[DeadlyDodging Gambit"]] while the latter spy tries to shoot Davey instead. And finally, after picking up the dead Alvarez's gun, Davey kills Rice out of rage when backed into a wall when he thinks Rice has killed Jack Flack]].

* FreudianTrio: The three spies; Haverman, Alvarez, and Rice fall under this trope as the Id, Ego, and Superego, respectively, in terms of the extent of their impulsive behavior, as they select some very public San Antonio landmarks to conduct their dirty spy business. [[spoiler: This is precisely the order in which they are killed. Haverman is killed in a car wreck after he carelessly drives the van into a jewelry store [[KarmicDeath while intending to run down and kill Davey]]. Alvarez is accidentally killed by Rice during the aforementioned [[BatmanGambit "Crossfire]] [[DeadlyDodging Gambit"]] while the latter spy tries to shoot Davey instead. And finally, after picking up the dead Alvarez's gun, Davey kills Rice out of rage when backed into a wall when he thinks Rice has killed Jack Flack]].

* WouldHurtAChild: And how. The spies have [[MoralEventHorizon no qualms whatsoever about murdering children.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted with the spies. See [[WouldHurtAChild Would Hurt A Child]] below

* ActingForTwo / PlayingAgainstType: Dabney Coleman plays Davey's widowed dad and Jack Flack, and unusually he ''isn't'' cast as an asshole in either role.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Jack gives Davey really dumb advice: run across gunfire, run through traffic, steal things, [[spoiler: and overcome his nonviolence so he can shoot at the bad guys]]. Even more oddly, [[spoiler: it works out well for Davey every time.]]

* OutOfTheInferno: At the end of the film, the plane the [=MacCreadys=] have commandeered and which [[spoiler:Davey's father, Hal,]] has volunteered to pilot is blown up by the bomb which Davey stopped from being used to kill Kim. However, [[spoiler:Hal]] emerges from the fireball unharmed.

One day, Davey is on a fire escape while playing a spy-game with his friend Kim and happens to see a real FBI agent being threatened by a few bad guys. The FBI agent flees, and tries to make it down the fire escape where Davey is playing. But the agent gets shot and collapses before Davey. The agent hands Davey a cartridge for a game called ''Cloak & Dagger''. [[ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin With his dying breath]], he tells Davey to get a million points to unlock the secrets in the game.

* ToThePain: When Rice has Davey cornered, he boasts that while he could turn Davey into hamburger in about three seconds with the machine gun, he'd rather start with shooting him in the kneecaps...

Davey is a young boy with a vivid imagination. He pretends to be a ''JamesBond''-esque superspy named Jack Flack in games with other kids, and likes to imagine that Jack is standing beside him in daily life.

One day, Davey is on a fire escape while playing a spy-game with his friend Kim and happens to see a real FBI agent being threatened by a few bad guys. The FBI agent flees, and tries to make it down the fire escape where Davey is playing. But the agent gets shot and collapses before Davey. The agent hands Davey an cartridge for a game called Cloak & Dagger. [[ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin With his dying breath]], he tells Davey to get a million points to unlock the secrets in the game.

Davey escapes with the Cloak & Dagger cartridge. With the help of his imaginary friend Jack, Davey has to keep his precious video game from falling into enemy hands, to protect the important national secrets it contains.

As in many other 80s movies, Cloak & Dagger features a non-traditional family: Davey's father is raising him, as his mother is recently deceased. But surprisingly, it [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids subverts many classic family-movie tropes]]. In fact, the movie is full of ''FamilyUnfriendlyAesop''s:
* AdultsAreUseless: Davey's father, the police, and several other characters refuse to believe Davey and will not help him in any way. [[spoiler: Even the grandparent-like elderly couple who help Davey escape the {{Mooks}} turn out to be ''EvilOldFolks''.]]
* Davey's ''ImaginaryFriend'', who is also a ''ParentalSubstitute'', gives Davey really dumb advice: run across gunfire, run through traffic, steal things, [[spoiler: and overcome his nonviolence so he can shoot at the bad guys]]. Even more oddly, [[spoiler: it works out well for Davey every time.]]

%%* AdultsAreUseless

%%* EvilOldFolks
* FictionalVideoGame: Averted. The Cloak and Dagger video game existed in Atari 2600 and Arcade versions. The version shown in the movie uses the arcade screens and is depicted as being played on the Atari 5200, a planned release which was forestalled by the Great Videogame Crash.
%%* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin
%%* ImaginaryFriend

%%* OutOfTheInferno
%%* ParentalSubstitute

%% ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.* ActingForTwo / PlayingAgainstType: Dabney Coleman plays Davey's widowed dad and Jack Flack, and unusually he ''isn't'' cast as an asshole in either role.

%% ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.

* ActingForTwo / PlayingAgainstType: Dabney Coleman plays Davey's widowed dad and Jack Flack, and unusually he ''isn't'' cast as an asshole in either role.

* AdultsAreUseless
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
* EvilOldFolks

* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin
* ImaginaryFriend

* {{Mooks}}
* OutOfTheInferno
* ParentalSubstitute

* StockScream

* FictionalVideoGame

Not to be confused with the trope ''CloakAndDagger'' or the superhero duo Comicbook/CloakAndDagger, Cloak & Dagger is a 1980s-era video game tie-in movie.

Not to be confused with ''CloakAndDagger'', Cloak & Dagger is a 1980s-era video game tie-in movie.

* JackAttack

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