Laserhawk is a Canadian science fiction film directed by Jean Pellerin and released in 1997. In the film, two teenagers must team up with a comic book writer and a mental patient to save mankind from destruction at the hands of aliens.
8-466: Nerdy Wisconsin teen Zach Raymond ( Jason James Richter ) gains fame in his area and at high school after allegedly videotaping a UFO with unprecedented quality. Soon, however, Col. Lewis Teagarden of the United States Army comes to investigate his claim, and he discovers that Zach faked the footage using a green screen and a homemade UFO model. Dejected and outed as a fraud, Zach gets a job at
16-448: A local diner and there meets Cara ( Melissa Galianos ), a goth girl who is also a huge comic book fan. She tells him he shouldn't have taken the UFO design straight from her favorite comic book. Though Zach has never seen this comic before, the ship looks just like the one he designed. Zach drives a co-worker home to her trailer in the woods outside of town. Meanwhile, a school bus of students
24-610: Is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role in the Free Willy film series as Jesse, the boy who befriends Willy the orca . Richter was born on January 29, 1980, in Medford, Oregon , the son of Sandra "Sandy" Montgomery, an actress, and Gregory Lynn Richter, who was in the U.S. Navy. At the age of 3, he and his family moved to Honolulu , Hawaii , where a Japanese casting agency discovered him and signed him up for three TV spots. In 1989, his family moved back to
32-510: Is an alien being reincarnated from 250 million years ago who has been waiting for the invaders to return so he can save the Earth. Zach and Cara discover they are likewise reincarnated aliens and are destined to save the planet from alien invasion. This 1990s science fiction film–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jason James Richter Jason James Richter (born January 29, 1980, Medford, Oregon )
40-439: Is returning to town from a victorious away football game, and the students are filming their celebration. Zach, driving slowly on the country road, sees a blinding light coming from above and looks up to see a real UFO in the sky. Panicked, he floors the car and runs it into a tree. The UFO, moving on, lifts the school bus using its tractor beam and drops it back into the woods, completely empty. Additional UFOs begin to appear over
48-455: The mainland, settling in San Diego, California . Richter starred as Jesse in Free Willy (1993), a role for which he was chosen out of more than 4,000 candidates. His other films include Cops & Robbersons , The NeverEnding Story III , Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home , Laserhawk , Free Willy 3: The Rescue , and The Setting Son . He also reprised his role as Jesse in
56-592: The music video for Michael Jackson 's " Childhood ", which was featured in Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home . In 2021, he appeared in the thriller The Little Things , his first studio film since the Free Willy films. Between the Free Willy roles, he had TV guest roles on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch , Rugrats and The Client . Following his appearance in Ricochet River , Richter took
64-432: The town, abducting townsfolk; all these UFOs resemble the one Zach faked up and the one Cara remembers from her favorite comic, created by M.K. Ultra ( Gordon Currie ). When Zach and Cara find Mr. Ultra, he admits that he used to work at the mental hospital before taking up cartooning, and the comic was based on the crazed ravings of a mental patient named Bob. They then discover that Bob ( Mark Hamill ), far from being insane,
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