Minutemen (film)
| Minutemen | |
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| Screenplay by | John Killoran |
| Story by |
David Diamond David Weissman |
| Directed by | Lev L. Spiro |
| Starring |
Jason Dolley Luke Benward Nicholas Braun Chelsea Staub J. P. Manoux Steven R. McQueen Kara Crane |
| Theme music composer | Nathan Wang |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Douglas Sloan |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Salty Pictures |
| Distributor | Disney-ABC Domestic Television |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Release | |
| Original network | Disney Channel |
| Original release | January 25, 2008 |
Minutemen is a 2008 science-fiction Disney Channel Original Movie. The movie was the most viewed program on cable for the week, with 6.48 million viewers.
The film was written by John Killoran (writing the teleplay) and David Diamond and David Weissman (writing the story) and directed by Lev L. Spiro, who received a Director's Guild nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programs for it. Andrew Gunn, Ann Marie Sanderlin and Doug Sloan are the executive producers. The movie was originally slated for release in March 2008, however, the movie premiered on Disney Channel in United States on January 25, 2008.
On the first day of high school, best friends Virgil Fox (Jason Dolley), Derek Beaugard (Steven R. McQueen) and Stephanie Jameson (Chelsea Staub) decide to begin their paths by trying out for various activities. While Derek tries for the football team and Stephanie begins cheerleading, Virgil's high school career takes a bad turn. Charlie Tuttle (Luke Benward), a genius who skipped many grades, rockets onto the field on a rocket-propelled car, losing control until Derek throws a football at him and knocks him off. Virgil defends Charlie while Derek just sits by. Virgil and Charlie are forced to dress as cheerleaders and are hung on the school mascot's, a ram, horns.
Three years later, senior year, Virgil and Charlie are still outcasts. Charlie informs Virgil that he has brilliantly invented a time machine. Unaware of how to build the time machine, the duo recruits another social outcast named Zeke (Nicholas Braun). When the time machine is built, Virgil, still regretting the first day of high school, decides that he would like to use the machine to undo embarrassing mistakes made by their classmates. They test the time machine out by buying a winning lottery ticket. Forgetting that they are underage, they ask a local street performer to buy it for them, but are forced to return to the present early. This in turn causes the street performer to win the lottery using the numbers they provided.
Jeanette (Kara Crane) helps the trio save outcasts from social embarrassment by providing them with white snowsuits to wear and handles the machine while the boys are time-traveling. The school's vice-principal (J. P. Manoux) attempts to stop the "Snowsuit Guys", the name everybody knows them by, though they call themselves the "Minutemen".
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