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My Science Project, a Big Middle Finger, and Me
A middle finger coming out of the trunk of a car. That was literally my only memory of the sci-fi comedy My Science Project. For some reason—probably because I was very young when I first saw it—that image burned itself into my brain and for decades it was the only thing I’d associate with the film. Not the actors, not the plot, not anything. Just that middle finger. For 35 years.
In my mind, the middle finger mechanically popping out of a car trunk happened during the film’s climax. A moment of levity as the hero triumphantly sped away from the bad guys. And, for decades, I seriously believed that happened in this movie. Oh, and something about a science project too, I guess. Having just rewatched the film though, the moment happens about a half-hour into the movie, not during a chase, and has literally no bearing on the plot of the movie whatsoever.
Turns out, the real science project should be why my memory of My Science Project is so bad.
The actual movie, written and directed by Last Starfighter creator Jonathan R. Betuel, is about a gearhead named Michael (Top Gun’s John Stockwell) who breaks into an abandoned airbase hoping to find something to pass for his senior science project. There he finds a mysterious energy
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My Science Project
American science fiction film
My Science Project is a American teenscience fiction comedy film directed by Jonathan R. Betuel. It followed on the heels of other teen sci-fi/comedy films released the same year, such as Back to the Future, Real Genius, and Weird Science; it did not perform as well as those films.
Plot
[edit]In , the United States military secures a crashed UFO in a hangar bay. President Dwight D. Eisenhower enters to see the craft and simply orders his men to "get rid of it".
In , a high school senior named Michael Harlan, whose only interest is muscle cars, reluctantly searches for something to turn in for his science class project final. While on what his bookworm friend Ellie Sawyer 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 scientific 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, causing it to leech power from a nearby boombox. His friend, Vince Latello, tries to talk him out of attaching the device to an automotive battery, whereupon the device emits a swirl of colorful