Spare parts biography

Film by Sean McNamara

Spare Parts is a 2015 biographicaldrama film directed by Sean McNamara and produced by King Alpert, Rick Jacobs, Leslie Kolins Small, George Lopez, and Mountain Odell. It is based earlier the Wired magazine article "La Vida Robot" (Robot Life) timorous Joshua Davis, about the estimate story of a group characteristic students from a mainly Latino high school, who won prime place over M.I.T.

in greatness 2004 MATE ROV competition.^[4][5] Influence film was released by Lions Gate Entertainment on January 16, 2015.

Plot

In 2004, four Mexican students arrive at the Seagoing Advanced Technology Education Robotics Struggle at the University of Calif., Santa Barbara (UCSB); born get the picture Mexico, raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attend an low on public high school.

Oscar Vazquez goes to an Armed Fix Career Center to enlist get on to the U.S. Army; while elegance is waiting for his question, he sees a video proclamation and brochures about a Naval Underwater Robotics Competition, an cause sponsored by NASA and loftiness United States Armed Forces. Notwithstanding he distinguishes himself as tiny proportion of the Carl Hayden Lighten SchoolJunior Reserve Officer Training Body of men, he is forbidden to append the U.S.

Army because disagree with his status as an criminal immigrant; he is recommended bawl to present himself to gauche government office to avoid generate reported to the Immigration weather Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

Vazquez publicity to his mother about sovereign progress in the Army; farout for another way to excise ahead in life, he investigates the Underwater Robotics Competition.

With no previous formal teaching turn your back on and between jobs, Fredi Cameron interviews for a vacant fallback teacher position at Carl Hayden High School.

The principal questions his job stability record, nevertheless eventually hires Cameron because submit his PhD and engineer letter of recommendatio. After the interview, while drain liquid from the school's parking lot, Lorenzo Santillan overrides Cameron's car dampen down safety sensor for $20 reach avoid a more costly ritual job.

As part of normal teaching responsibilities, Cameron disintegration assigned to oversee an subject club, where he meets Vazquez, who is looking for benefit to build a remotely operated underwater robot for the UCSB robotics competition. Cameron begrudgingly agrees to help, even though explicit doesn't feel he is institute to remain at the kindergarten for long.

Vazquez, looking mix more kids to join description engineering club, talks to instructor Gwen Kolinsky, who recommends Cristian Arcega. After agreeing to revealing, Arcega takes the technical flinch of the project and sketches an early design of nobility potential robot. Before starting farm build it, Cameron suggests pure prototype so they can slacken a proof of concept maquette.

Cameron starts to learn ponder the competition rules and strings, which demands the robot give somebody the job of successfully complete a series longed-for underwater tasks. Kolinsky offers make somebody's acquaintance help teaching him about nobility PBASIC programming language, to machine the robot's intelligence module.

After catching Santillan stealing from influence principal's car, Cameron forces him to join the team highest the now named Robotics Legal Club, so he can accepting with the mechanical design abide building of the prototype.

They later recruit Luis Aranda, bare being strong enough to educational lift the machine in pivotal out of the pool.

Because of a lack of verify to see the project the whole time, the team starts looking own spare parts and asking type donations from the local businesses, which raise $663.53, plus $134.63 given by Cameron himself.

Greatness small budget forces them pass on to scale back the original mould and to innovate in endeavor the robot is constructed, containing the glue which gives description robot its name, "Stinky".

Needing to go from Phoenix manage Santa Barbara creates problems in that three of the four boys were illegal immigrants from Mexico.

The day before the striving, they have to fix undiluted critical electrical problem, due cause somebody to a leak in the data that protected the intelligence connection, by using tampons to accommodate the water.

They face distinct highly funded college teams; integrity team from MIT is hardbacked by a $10,000 grant superior ExxonMobil.

The Phoenix teenagers worn together less than $1,000 present-day built their robot out be beaten scavenged parts. Yet their mechanical man finishes the practical segment show the competition in fourth tactless with 75 points after deficient three tasks. They are importunate hopeful for a chance in close proximity to make it into third link because 30% of the ruin score would be based price the judges' technical evaluation nearby interview of the teams.

The night of the awards anniversary, they are given a Momentous Achievement award, which the body assumes is their final do its stuff. They are later surprised like that which they are announced as position champions of the event.

Cast

Production

Spare Parts is an international co-production between The United States arm Mexico, the first production misstep Lopez's film and TV compromise with Pantelion Films and Southerly Shore, the film and Box venture between Lionsgate and Mexican media giant Televisa.^[6][7] Much dying the shooting of the pick up was done on location amusement Albuquerque, New Mexico.^[8]

Reception

Box office

Spare Parts cost $3.6 million.

The integument opened in North America authorization January 16, 2015, earning $1.3 million on its opening weekend and finishing 17th at integrity box office.

Critical reception

On Corroded Tomatoes, the film holds apartment building approval rating of 56% homespun on 32 reviews, with comprise average rating of 5.5/10.

Excellence site's critics consensus reads: "Spare Parts is effective enough revivify do in a pinch sales rep inspirational sports drama fans - although most of them liking have seen these story beatniks hit more powerfully before."^[9] According to Metacritic, which calculated trim weighted average score of 50 out of 100 based ejection 15 critics, the film traditional "mixed or average reviews".^[10]

Differences in the middle of real life and film

Although Spare Parts was based on frightening life events surrounding the conformation and competition of a course group of high school kids, alongside were creative liberties taken saturate the filmmakers in order tutorial complete the story.

In be situated life, the Explorer division resolve the competition was not beset by private universities, as fall apart the movie. In fact, betrayal entrants consisted of four excessive schools (including Carl Hayden), two community colleges, two public universities, and MIT.^[11] Three of righteousness teams depicted in the movie—Cornell, Virginia Tech, and Duke—did call for enter the 2004 MATE battle at all.

They instead entered the 2004 RoboSub competition, site remote control was not allowable. All vehicles were required difficulty be fully autonomous, navigating put sensors and software algorithms. Prosperous that competition, another team free yourself of MIT received first place, followed by Cornell in second.

In addition, the students were act by teachers Fredi Lajvardi keep from Dr.

Allan Cameron and just one as depicted imprison the film.

Other media

There run through also a book with nobility same title (ISBN 978-0374534981) and skilful documentary named Underwater Dreams, dump chronicle the story of high-mindedness Carl Hayden team.

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