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Cloak & Dagger
AUSTRALIA · 1984

Cloak & Dagger

Richard Franklin
coming of age imagination vs reality spy thriller grief and loss child in danger
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Synopsis

Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with his imaginary father-figure, Jack Flack - a substitute for his real father, who is struggling with the recent death of Davey's mother. However, fantasy becomes reality for Davey after he witnesses the murder of an FBI agent, who in his dying breath, giv

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