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| | My Science Project Review (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Decades later, in 1985, Kit Carson High School student Mike Harlan ( John Stockwell) is having a bad day when his science teacher Bob ( Dennis Hopper) tells him he won't get his diploma if he doesn't produce a project soon, and his girlfriend dumps him because he's more interested in working on cars. |
 | | Scripted by the director, Jonathan R. Betuel, My Science Project starts off like a typical teen movie of the eighties, and gradually metamorphoses into a teen version of Ghostbusters, only with flying saucer technology replacing the Lovecraft-style supernatural forces of that film. |
 | | The teen movie traditions are present and correct, with an awkwardly blooming love between Mike and Ellie, the school stereotypes and the wink to anti-establishment attitudes, but where the gizmo could have led these to interesting places, what you get is a school in the grip of a time warp. |
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