Cloak & Dagger (1984) review

Espionage-obsessed Davey (Henry Thomas), who has imaginary conversations with "super spy" Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman), stumbles into a real life murder and is handed an Atari 5200 game called Cloak & Dagger - that contains secret data pertaining to an invisible bomber project - and then naturally the bad guys (led by Michael Murphy) want the cartridge back ... but when Davey tells his widower father (Coleman again) about it, he doesn't believe him.  This was actually a personal favorite as a kid (I made a VHS copy of it) and that really is the target audience, because as an adult I find the plot mechanics to be grating and Davey "talking to himself" to be more on the schizophrenic side than "endearing."  It's based on the same short story by Cornell Woolrich ("The Boy Cried Murder") as The Window from 1949, but that's better grounded in some form of reality.  Also, who goes after an eleven-year-old with a machine gun?  It's not like he's the Terminator....