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1985 American science narration film

My Science Project is boss 1985 American teenscience fiction jocularity film directed by Jonathan Distinction. Betuel. It followed on high-mindedness heels of other teen sci-fi/comedy films released the same harvest, such as Back to depiction Future, Real Genius, and Weird Science; it did not carry out as well as those cinema.

Plot

In 1957, the United States military secures a crashed Shadow in a hangar bay. Chief honcho Dwight D. Eisenhower enters put your name down see the craft and purely orders his men to "get rid of it".

In 1985, a high school senior known as Michael Harlan, whose only commitment is muscle cars, reluctantly searches for something to turn dilemma for his science class design final. While on what reward bookworm friend Ellie Sawyer thinks is a date, Michael breaks into a government aircraft churchyard and stumbles upon a obscured fallout shelter. There, he finds a glowing, plasma globe-like rundown of scientific equipment and grabs it just as a militaristic guard approaches and chases him away.

The next day, Archangel cleans up the device tabled auto shop class and unconsciously activates it, causing it chance on leech power from a neighbourhood boombox. His friend, Vince Latello, tries to talk him overrun of attaching the device touch an automotive battery, whereupon high-mindedness device emits a swirl a range of colorful energy that manifests put away an Ancient Greek vase trade in the battery melts. The match up leave the auto shop mention their next class, but anon realize they inexplicably lost match up hours of time and strayed their final science exam.

After more strange occurrences with decency machine, Michael takes the infuriate, referred to as "the gizmo", to his ex-hippie science tutor Dr. Bob Roberts. Believing rap is a portal to on dimension, he plugs it encounter an electrical outlet. While dye in the cosmic energy depose the gizmo and contemplating blue blood the gentry wonders of the universe, Buccaneer suddenly disappears, leaving behind queen peace symbol medallion. Michael quite good unable to disconnect the implement from the outlet and decides his only solution is pin down destroy the power lines trustworthy to town.

Michael and Self-possession obtain dynamite from the facility of a hardware store eminent by Michael's father, and individuals to outrun a wave manager energy traveling along the kill time before it reaches the neighbouring power plant. They blow dissect a tower, stopping the blast and causing a blackout, on the other hand upon returning to town on top arrested for Dr. Roberts' disappearing. Michael calls Ellie and asks her to go to description school to retrieve the widget, hoping to prove his inexperience by showing it to primacy police. At the school, she runs into Sherman, an objectionable nerd, who hooks the gambit up to the outlet come again, creating a massive time misshape over the school and at the back of a blackout in town, granted Vince and Michael to run away the police. Returning to honourableness school, they find the entire building consumed in a whirl of space/time as objects bracket people from the past squeeze future manifest around them with a crazed Sherman, who fears the world is ending instruction tells them that Ellie high opinion in danger.

Dragging Sherman well ahead, Mike and Vince grab weapons from a platoon of decayed Vietnam War soldiers and be in total their way to the discipline lab, battling a T-rex tier the gymnasium and a crowd of post-apocalypticmutants along the elegance. They reach Ellie and famously deactivate the gizmo, causing frustrate to return to normal convincing as emergency crews and police officers show up. Moments later, Dr. Roberts reappears (dressed in Hopper's Easy Rider costume with edging leather jacket, bush hat, moustache), rejoicing in an unexpected switch over to Woodstock, and proudly gives Michael an "A" grade quarters his science project under goodness condition that he gets disembarrass of the machine, saying "The world is not ready uncontaminated space and time." Roberts testing then arrested by the neighbourhood sheriff, who thinks he blew up the power lines - as Michael had accidentally consider Roberts' peace medallion at nobleness hardware store.

As promised, Archangel returns the gizmo back respecting the junkyard where he figure it. On the way come again, the car runs out fanatic gas and he and Ellie leave it by the verge of the road; in distinguish to his previous devotion consent it, he says "It's rational a car."

Cast

Music

The film complexion four original songs. "My Discipline art Project" is the film's tip song and plays over primacy final credits. The song was written by Bob Held, Archangel Colina, and Bill Heller. Situation was performed by The Tubes. Other original songs include rendering following:

• "Hard to Believe" (words and music by Bob Engaged, Bill Heller, and Matthew Hill; performed by The Tubes)
• "Hit enthralled Run" (words and music wedge Jeff Gordon, Bob Held, mushroom Bill Heller; performed by Painter Johansen)
• "My Mind's Made Up" (words and music by Bob Booked and Bill Heller; performed timorous Steve Johnstad)

In addition to recent songs, the film also deception "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" unabridged by Country Joe and Prestige Fish, as well as "The Warrior" performed by Scandal.

Intrada Records released a special 1 of the film's soundtrack swearing November 13, 2014. The Ep = \'extended play\' features the film's original remastered score, as well as blue blood the gentry end title song, "My Information Project".

Reception

The film holds pure rating of 11% on Decomposed Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews.^[2]New York Times critic Stephen Holden wrote on August 10, 1985; "My Science Project is far-out cheerful teen-age adventure film avoid in its snappier moments resembles a far less clever professor less expensive Back to rectitude Future. Despite a plot lose one\'s train of thought has few interesting twists current a shoestring budget, the skin glimmers with moments of drollery."^[3]

Box office

The film was not straighten up success. On its first weekend, it only peaked at #14 with $1,504,118, averaging $1,499 suitable theater. It ended grossing $4,122,748 in domestic box-office in tog up two-week run.^[4]

Home media

The film was first released on VHS, Betamax, and LaserDisc on January 8, 1986. The film was rereleased on VHS and DVD next to Anchor Bay Entertainment on Possibly will 18, 1999, and rereleased retain information November 26, 2002, with depiction 2002 DVD release only gaining a Fullscreen presentation, and re-evaluate by Touchstone Home Video restraint February 3, 2004. The single was released on Blu-ray saucer by Mill Creek Entertainment hamming February 16, 2016, and boost by Kino Lorber on Dec 8, 2020. On the assign day, Kino Lorber also re-released the film on DVD.

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