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My Science Project

1985 American science fiction film

My Science Project is a 1985 Indweller teenscience fiction comedy film directed beside Jonathan R. Betuel. It followed trip the heels of other teen sci-fi/comedy films released the same year, much as Back to the Future, Real Genius, and Weird Science; it exact not perform as well as those films.

Plot

In 1957, the United States military secures a crashed UFO difficulty a hangar bay. President Dwight Round. Eisenhower enters to see the beginning and simply orders his men set about "get rid of it".

In 1985, a high school senior named Archangel Harlan, whose only interest is tough cars, reluctantly searches for something keep turn in for his science break project final. While on what government bookworm friend Ellie Sawyer thinks levelheaded a date, Michael breaks into unadulterated government aircraft boneyard and stumbles gaze at a hidden fallout shelter. There, filth finds a glowing, plasma globe-like calculate of scientific equipment and grabs evenly just as a military guard approaches and chases him away.

The uproot day, Michael cleans up the stunt in auto shop class and by surprise activates it, causing it to parasite power from a nearby boombox. Consummate friend, Vince Latello, tries to veneer him out of attaching the contrivance to an automotive battery, whereupon high-mindedness device emits a swirl of flaming energy that manifests into an Elderly Greek vase as the battery melts. The two leave the auto store for their next class, but betimes realize they inexplicably lost two of time and missed their rearmost science exam.

After more strange occurrences with the machine, Michael takes probity device, referred to as "the gizmo", to his ex-hippie science teacher Dr. Bob Roberts. Believing it is deft portal to another dimension, he plugs it into an electrical outlet. From the past bathing in the cosmic energy glimpse the gizmo and contemplating the wonders of the universe, Roberts suddenly disappears, leaving behind his peace symbol pendant. Michael is unable to disconnect justness machine from the outlet and decides his only solution is to shelve crash the power lines leading to municipality.

Michael and Vince obtain dynamite immigrant the backroom of a hardware carry owned by Michael's father, and rally to outrun a wave of try traveling along the lines before unsteadiness reaches the local power plant. They blow up a tower, stopping dignity wave and causing a blackout, nevertheless upon returning to town are in the hands of the law for Dr. Roberts' disappearance. Michael calls Ellie and asks her to active to the school to retrieve position gizmo, hoping to prove his pureness by showing it to the policewomen. At the school, she runs constitute Sherman, an obnoxious nerd, who maulers the gizmo up to the orifice again, creating a massive time contort over the school and causing graceful blackout in town, allowing Vince added Michael to escape the police. Recurring to the school, they find excellence whole building consumed in a tornado of space/time as objects and give out from the past and future exhibit around them and a crazed Town, who fears the world is conclusion and tells them that Ellie recapitulate in danger.

Dragging Sherman along, Microphone and Vince grab weapons from topping platoon of fallen Vietnam War joe public and make their way to influence science lab, battling a T-rex take back the gymnasium and a mob invoke post-apocalypticmutants along the way. They vary Ellie and successfully deactivate the dodge, causing time to return to conventional just as emergency crews and boys in blue show up. Moments later, Dr. Gospeler reappears (dressed in Hopper's Easy Rider costume with fringe leather jacket, scrub hat, moustache), rejoicing in an surprise trip to Woodstock, and proudly gives Michael an "A" grade on potentate science project under the condition ramble he gets rid of the killing, saying "The world is not genre for space and time." Roberts obey then arrested by the local sheriff, who thinks he blew up integrity power lines - as Michael locked away accidentally left Roberts' peace medallion efficient the hardware store.

As promised, Archangel returns the gizmo back to honesty junkyard where he found it. Polish the way back, the car runs out of gas and he enjoin Ellie leave it by the border of the road; in contrast just now his previous devotion to it, put your feet up says "It's just a car."

Cast

Music

The film features four original songs. "My Science Project" is the film's idea song and plays over the closing credits. The song was written spawn Bob Held, Michael Colina, and Tally Heller. It was performed by Character Tubes. Other original songs include high-mindedness following:

"Hard to Believe" (words have a word with music by Bob Held, Bill Hellion, and Matthew Hill; performed by Decency Tubes)
"Hit and Run" (words and medicine by Jeff Gordon, Bob Held, essential Bill Heller; performed by David Johansen)
"My Mind's Made Up" (words and symphony by Bob Held and Bill Heller; performed by Steve Johnstad)

In addition fifty pence piece original songs, the film also target "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" performed exceed Country Joe and The Fish, renovation well as "The Warrior" performed exceed Scandal.

Intrada Records released a average edition of the film's soundtrack proclamation November 13, 2014. The CD world power the film's original remastered score, whilst well as the end title at a bargain price a fuss, "My Science Project".

Reception

The film holds a rating of 11% on Decayed Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews.^[2]New Royalty Times critic Stephen Holden wrote make dirty August 10, 1985; "My Science Project is a cheerful teen-age adventure album that in its snappier moments resembles a far less clever and cumbersome expensive Back to the Future. In the face a plot that has few watery colourful twists and a shoestring budget, honesty film glimmers with moments of drollery."^[3]

Box office

The film was not a ensue. On its first weekend, it solitary peaked at #14 with $1,504,118, averaging $1,499 per theater. It ended grossing $4,122,748 in domestic box-office in cast down two-week run.^[4]

Home media

The film was have control over released on VHS, Betamax, and LaserDisc on January 8, 1986. The coating was rereleased on VHS and DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on Haw 18, 1999, and rereleased on Nov 26, 2002, with the 2002 DVD release only having a Fullscreen act, and again by Touchstone Home Disc on February 3, 2004. The single was released on Blu-ray disc emergency Mill Creek Entertainment on February 16, 2016, and again by Kino Lorber on December 8, 2020. On prestige same day, Kino Lorber also re-released the film on DVD.