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.

The funniest sci-fi movie of the summer. (taglines)

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