# My Science Project

My Science Project is a 1985 comedy science fiction film about a high school student and his friend who find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threaten mankind.
    Directed and written by Jonathan R. Betuel.

## Vince Latello

* I just want to be home watching cartoons!
* [gives the finger to another driver] Sit on this, buttplug!
* Danger makes great sex.
* I could be home watching Magnum!
* I'm cool, you're cool, we're cool, thank you, good night!

## Dialogue

    Cop: Hey, kid. Why do you wear sunglasses at night?
    Vince Latello: Because when you're cool, the sun shine on you 24 hours a day.
    Det. Nulty: What's your name, cowboy?
    Bob Roberts: Robert Roberts, Esquire to you, honky!
    Bob Roberts: You guys cut my science final! What's with you guys? Where were you?
    Michael Harlan: We got kinda hung up in the auto shop...
    Vince Latello: Yeah, in the ozone.
    Bob Roberts: In the ozone, Blowzone! I'm tired of you four-F's! Let me tell you something, unless your project is dyno-supreme, you both get D's!
    Vince Latello: [eagerly] Hey I'll take it!
    Vince Latello: My old man says, "Treat broads like dirt and they love ya."
    Michael Harlan: Oh, yeah? So where's your old lady?
    Vince Latello: My parents are divorced.
    Sherman: This plant has been extinct for sixty billion years!
    Vince Latello: Yeah? Well I ain't ever seen one before!
    Bob Roberts: This thing is generating power and light without heat, Michael!
    Michael Harlan: How is that possible?
    Bob Roberts: It's not possible! I mean not on this world, anyway.
    Vince Latello: Whoa, what other world are we talking about?
    Vince Latello: Hey, I hit on Sawyer once.
    Michael Harlan: Oh yeah?
    Vince Latello: Yeah, I tried to give her this Italian macho bod.
    Michael Harlan: What did she do?
    Vince Latello: Poor girl lost out. She called me a name I had to look up in the dictionary!
    Michael Harlan: [at the school library counter] We need a book.
    Sherman: Oh, a car book?
    Vince Latello: [mockingly] A car book?
    Michael Harlan: No, a book on strange things.
    Sherman: Like Vince.
    Vince Latello: [grabs Sherman] Hey, sayonara, dicknose!
    Sentry: Morituri te salutant.
    Vince Latello: Yo, Sherman. What did he say?
    Sherman: He's going to kick your ass.
    Ellie Sawyer: [while being chased by police] What are we going to do?
    Vince Latello: About one to five with good behavior.
    Ellie Sawyer: Michael, is Bob dead?
    Michael Harlan: I don't know.
    Vince Latello: Great. There goes my D.
    Michael Harlan: Caps to the dynamite, dynamite to the legs, got it?
    Ellie Sawyer: Caps to the dynamite, dynamite to the legs, got it.
    Michael Harlan: Latello?
    Ellie Sawyer: Caps to the legs, legs to the dynamite.
    Michael Harlan: Come on!
    Ellie Sawyer: Hey, good thing I watch TV, huh?
    Vince Latello: Son of a bitch, what do you call this wawa?
    Sherman: I believe you'd call him a Neanderthal man.
    Vince Latello: Well, I don't care what country he's from!

## Taglines

* The funniest sci-fi movie of the summer.
* We must not destroy the world.

## Cast

* John Stockwell - Michael Harlan
* Danielle von Zerneck - Ellie Sawyer
* Fisher Stevens - Vince Latello
* Raphael Sbarge - Sherman
* Richard Masur - Detective Isadore Nulty
* Barry Corbin - Lew Harlan
* Ann Wedgeworth - Dolores
* Dennis Hopper - Bob Roberts
* Candace Silvers - Irene
* Beau Dremann - Matusky
* Pat Simmons - Crystal

## External links

* My Science Project quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* My Science Project at Rotten Tomatoes
* My Science Project at Allmovie