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Synopsis: Idealistic Sandra Beecher has just started working as a Science teacher at Kona-Pali High School in Hawaii, being hired for this job despite her teaching background being English. Her reason for taking the job is largely to run away from the mainland and a failed marriage. She finds that her students are an unmotivated lot, largely because there are low societal expectations of them, including from their parents and the school faculty. As such, she directs a handful of her most unmotivated students to attend a regional science fair at which there are no Kona-Pali displays to come up with their own science fair projects. An incident at the fair does spur one of her students, Daniel Webster, self-professed as not being good at most things but believing he is a good designer, to announce, with the support of his fellow students, that they want to build a solar powered car of his design as their project, and to enter that car in the upcoming Inter-island Race. American Corporate giant, Cel
Director(s): Charles T. Kanganis
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
PG
Year:
1996
100 min
165 Views


We're grateful

to the Office of Energy...

for sponsoring this competition.

And tonight we want to thank

one individual...

Mr. Jack Fryman, vice president of

marketing for CelTech Corporation...

for his support

and his generous donation...

in CelTech's state-of-the-art

Zygon solar panels...

which we're using in our car.

And his son Steve

has something for him.

Come on up, Steve.

Dad. Thanks.

Thank you. This is great.

Miss Teach,

why aren't we in this race?

'Cause you ain't no haole,

Cho, that's why.

Aren't a haole.

What's a haole?

It means "not us."

CelTech has arranged for the winner

of Hawaii's inter-island race...

to compete in the

World Solar Challenge in Australia.

So let's win big here,

and then it's on to Australia.

Thank you.

- Can we get some pictures?

- Sure.

Hey, hands off, a**hole.

- I was just admiring it, man.

- Is there a problem here?

Yeah, I caught this lolo

fingering our car.

God, the place

is crawling with them.

All right, man.

You made your point, all right?

- I'm sorry I touched your car.

- Hey, don't kiss his preppy ass.

- Come on, Let's kick it!

- Hey, let's not get ugly here.

- It's too late in their case.

- Hey, eat me, slicky boy.

Come on. A lot more exhibits

to see. Let's go. Move it!

That's the problem with these

events. They'll let anybody in.

Ain't all bad, though.

Hey, wahine.

Remember me? Bare-ass Beach?

Or were you too wasted?

Steve, what's going on here?

- This guy just hit me!

- Who?

That one!

Call security and get this

animal out of here!

- Come on, Braz. Let's go.

- You okay, man? What happened?

Kona rules, you mahus!

Nobody talks. Nobody moves.

It's clear.

- What are you guys in for?

- Fighting.

Shut up, Cho. You didn't fight.

You just stood around.

Don't blame him. It was you guys

in here with your big mouth.

- Me? Daniel started it!

- But he didn't finish it, did he?

- Yeah, what?

- Just let it go.

Hey, Daniel,

with the tiki necklace.

- I'm talking to you.

- What's your problem, Braz?

Oh, my problem? I don't have

a problem, haole. I know who I am.

I'm as local as you are.

I grew up here too, all right?

Oh, yeah? Well, I didn't see much

of that last night, bro.

They was laughing at us, Daniel.

And locals don't take that,

understand?

So how about it, bro?

Wanna go kick some haole's ass?

- I'm not a fighter.

- Yeah, no sh*t!

Hey, look, man!

You really want to kick ass?

Do it with this.

Wow! What is that?

- What's it look like? Geez.

- It's a solar car.

- I knew that.

- When did you come up with this?

Last night. I didn't like

what happened, either.

Get that bike off the grass!

Mother, I have a new life here.

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Barry Morrow

Barry Morrow (born June 12, 1948) is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for Rain Man. Morrow was born in Austin, Minnesota and studied at St. Olaf College. Several of Morrow's scripts are inspired by real people, especially people with disabilities and/or extraordinary talents. These include the savant played by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man, inspired by the real savant Kim Peek; and mentally disabled Bill Sackter, played by Mickey Rooney in the TV movie Bill. Both works received writing Oscar, Emmy and other awards for Morrow and for the actors who portrayed them. Morrow gave his Oscar statuette as a gift to Kim Peek. Morrow wrote CBS's Bill: On His Own (1983) and his relationship with Sackter is presented in the feature length 2008 documentary A Friend Indeed – The Bill Sackter Story.Morrow put his Oscar statuette on permanent loan to Salt Lake City in memory of Kim Peek, and put forward the money for the Peek Award, which "pays tribute to artists, media makers, and film subjects who are positively impacting our society’s perception of people with disabilities" and is given out by the Utah Film Center.Morrow is a member of the Association of Retarded Citizens, the National Association of Social Workers, and the Autism Society of America. He is an avid golfer, and is known to play the majority of his golf rounds using an eight club bag of hickory stick (wooden shaft) golf clubs made pre-1940. more…

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