This disappointing teen comedy from director Martha Coolidge is another entry in the rash of teens-goofing-with-science films. Fifteen-year-old Mitch Taylor (Gabe Jarret) is a whiz-kid who is accepted into a "young genius"-type college program by professor and TV science show host Hathaway
(William Atherton). Hathaway has become secretly embroiled with the CIA over a space-based laser weapon that they demand be delivered to them posthaste. Desperate to have the weapon completed, he has drafted some of the finest young minds in the country to his college and fooled them into doing
all the work. Mitch finds himself rooming with 21-year-old senior Chris Knight (Val Ki...
Released:
1985
Rated:
PG
Length:
105 mins