My Science Project
| My Science Project | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Jonathan R. Betuel |
| Produced by | Jonathan Taplin |
| Written by | Jonathan R. Betuel |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Peter Bernstein |
| Cinematography | David M. Walsh |
| Edited by | Carroll Timothy O'Meara |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Release date
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August 9, 1985 |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4,122,748 |
My Science Project is a 1985 American comedy science fiction film directed by Jonathan R. Betuel. Although not performing as well, the movie follows on heels of other teen-sci-fi/comedy films released the same year, such as Back to the Future, Real Genius, and Weird Science.
The movie begins in 1957 with a scene of a United States military operation to secure a crashed UFO in a hangar bay. A man, (President Dwight D. Eisenhower; played by Robert Beer), enters to see the craft and simply orders his men to "get rid of it."
Fast-forwarding to 1985, a high school senior named Michael Harlan (), whose only interest is muscle cars, reluctantly searches for something to turn in for his final science class project. While on what his bookworm friend Ellie Sawyer (Danielle von Zerneck), thinks is a date, Michael breaks into a government aircraft boneyard and stumbles upon a hidden fallout shelter. There, he finds a glowing, plasma globe-like piece of equipment and grabs it just as a military guard approaches and chases him away.
The next day, Michael cleans up the device in auto shop class and unwittingly activates it where it begins drawing power from a nearby boombox. His friend Vince Latello (Fisher Stevens), tries to talk him out of attaching the device's "terminals" to an automotive battery whereupon the device emits a swirl of colorful energy that manifests into an Ancient Greek vase. As the two leave the auto shop for their next class, they soon realize they inexplicably lost two hours of time and missed their final science exam.
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