Format: DVD

Genre: Comedy

Location: Fi24xa

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

High school student Rick Riker’s life has been one accident after another. Raised by his paternal uncle and his wife, Albert and Lucille Landers, in Empire City after his parents were killed in one of those accidents, Rick has only two true friends, Trey and their next-door neighbor, Jill Johnson. However, he has always wished he and Jill were more than friends, but she cannot see him as boyfriend material beyond her current boyfriend, boorish Lance Landers. Otherwise, Rick is often bullied by Lance and his ilk. A series of accidents on a school field trip to the animal research facility of Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals, run by Lance’s dying uncle, Lou Landers, leads to Rick getting bitten by a radioactive dragonfly. After he recovers from the bite, he realizes that it has resulted in him gaining some superhuman powers, many inherent to being a fly. Beyond needing to learn how to hone and control those powers, he has problems with what a fly of any sort inherently does; namely, fly, he has to decide who to tell. He fears telling Jill, in particular, would place her in danger, especially as he isn’t sure if he has the heroism to become a superhero. He may have no choice but to be heroic in the Empire City residents being attacked by someone with superhuman powers calling himself the Hourglass. Rick does not know that the Hourglass is really Lou Landers, whose scientific experiment to cure himself resulted in these powers instead. However, Lou has to kill to stay alive, and he needs to harness the energy from those he kills in the order of one person per day. Megalomaniac Lou learns that he has a much more desired possible goal: immortality through murder on a grand scale.