The Peanut Butter Solution 1985 Written by Vojtěch Jasný, Andrée Pelletier, Louise Pelletier and Michael Rubbio, directed by Michael Rubbio. Severin has a kid's line, this is their first kid film.
Michael is the director of Tommy Tricker And The Stamp Traveler. I saw that not long ago, when I looked him up I saw he'd also directed this film. I had already purchased it, based on a guy's recommendation, but I hadn't seen it yet. I had no Blu-ray for a while and I'm not keen on watching them in the summer anyway. The old Plasma TV I have is rather hot, nice for this time of the year when it's bloody cold, not so nice when it fights the air conditioner in the summer.
The kid in the movie is called Michael, on the way home with his friend Connie he stops to sneak into a recently burnt mansion to look around. He gets a big fright and all his hair falls out. The man and woman who died in the fire were homeless, it's their ghosts that scared him, and it's their ghosts that give him a magical formula to regrow his hair. Michael doesn't deal with his baldness very well and he doesn't deal with his new hair very well either. He's got more reason to complain on the backside, his magical hair grows way too well, inches an hour, all day. It's annoying enough that the school kicks him out. It was Michael's own fault, he added too much peanut butter.
Michael's art teacher is a bully and a kidnapper. He kidnaps Michael for his magical hair and he kidnaps 20 other kids to make paintbrushes from Michael's hair. Connie and Michael's sister Suzie do some investigating but before they get too far Connie gets kidnapped too. Eventually Suzie figures out where they are and brings her dad and the police. Michael's hair growth is arrested and everything gets back to normal when Michael's mom returns from Australia.
It was alright though I didn't care for Michael that much. I liked Suzie and his pal Connie. The boy who played Connie is Siluck Saysanasy, he was born in Laos and moved to Canada. This was his first film, he next role was as Yick in 64 episodes of Degrassi High. He didn't act a lot after that but he did become an assistant director working on Degrassi: The Next Generation and some interesting films like Hairspray, Resident Evil: Afterlife, RED, The Thing, Pacific Rim and Robocop.
Glad I bought the movie, I'll want to watch it again sometime.
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