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　　Sisk* el *and Ebert on_ ce r!:an a?=* specia?)l show en?titled@#-%^ "[Movies I'm-? Emb_]-arrassed/ to Ad_# mit I Like_d." I su. p)pose that if I c([omp:os!ed #,%such,/ a list\@ of guilty pleasures, this :+`]o[ne +_wo`#uld be one of them . . .[ ](*but  upon reflectio n, it'([ !s) ;/`really^% / ^a lot better tha.n that. Fifteen yea.^-r-old s#cience p?r=#odigy Mi_tch (Gabe Jarret) i@s r`ecr\=uited by ambitious col*[leg%e professo;)$r William A\th$.erton (i%n yet another%\^  of his p-atent^ed ro(]l!e#s as a l@%oath-$some` /character) to wo_r_].k .%)on the p,rofessor&##@3!?9s/?( priz;+ e las er/=- project,: not knowi%?ng!$: that th*(!e p)_rof!
@is :really @:develo!pin)g a g? .overnment w(?eapon. Along the wa_y, Mitch is  ^befrien;ded by Chri,:s (Val Kil]
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\*%er), a/_n=]\ o^#$!the
[+r\#% prod =ig][y a- #fe + w years? h)is senior who teaches t?)(he M.itch@= how to lo$]o
sen`# up.
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];.s could hav%?,;)e degenerated into noth[+i%ng m_-
ore tha=n)! just :another teen [$reve*n=ge^ comedy, bu`!t, there&^_^#39s =-(so mu (;ch more: the di ?\(alogu__%e i@]s l-%).aced w!=$i?t -h s?harp wit th=) er,%:e :#![are ( some love`_ly scenes th@#at have=: )#/nothing t^o do with th%,e/ ,-*(story yet are carefu`%lly set @\up, almost as -
`black_:outs!]! (
%:e.g.,+%[ Mitch goes -to  a lect +%ure at _%whic+h a `@f[(ew student*!@s have left tape [=recor#
/de!(rs instead of a^*_(ttend(i$-?+n*,g later, at another l
!ecture th#ere are mo@ re tape r\\ eco!rd;`_ers t[ha;n studen-%@ts and, in a ^: fin#al sc-\*ene, one large tape rec! :orde( r gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but o%]^`ther sma [;ll r][ecorders!) and th/ )[r+*ow-awa y scenes,-/ t-hat make you want t\o-^ s`/top an:d ba@[ck up the`:[: tape (e.g., C\.hris\/- o;- ]/ff-handedly cutting a s(lice off a^[ bar of solid +n ^itrogen to make a slug for the co+ffee machin e`: #). 　*(　It's / +%also one o:+f th
$;e few movies t.o boast the presence of %;)the memorabl^.e Michell@e Meyerink -- a/:,s @+Jo/.rda=%+ n,`= the "girl-ne)_rd&quo!t who*+/\ made bein (g smart and female somet.`+`hing t/.-$o be emulated. An d`*:# ther;e's [Te) ars for Fe.,ars / great.[% song,* &q]%uotEvery_body=  Wants to Rule the .World? _" providi^+
[ng- `] the perfect coda as; the clo sing cre -/dits begin to roll . . . `(. Yes: \*#reall  y now, w) hat, 9s/ there to be e/_mbarrassed ab;=o\:ut?