The team had only $800 and used car parts, no experience but twin first place over M.I.T in a 2004 national robotics competition.
November 29, 1970 in Bedford, Indiana, USA
22 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 August 1989, Columbia, Missouri, USA
15 December 1958, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 April 1975, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
1 October 1962, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 April 1961, Mission Hills, California, USA
8 October 1983, Soldotna, Alaska, USA
11 September 1965, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
February 25, 2016
An effective, family-friendly film with a message that provides a valuable introduction to the issues surrounding immigration reform for the next generation of voters.
January 17, 2015
Spare Parts tries too hard to be a based-on-a-true-story, feel-good, crowd-pleasing, triumph-of-the-underdogs movie.
January 17, 2015
While the appropriately titled "Spare Parts" might feel like it has been assembled from bits and pieces of other inspirational movies, that doesn't mean the fact-based drama is any less effective ...
January 23, 2015
Though based on a Wired magazine story, this sticks closely to the formulas of inspirational-teacher and sports-team dramas; distinguishing it from the pack is the fact that all four students who formed the club were undocumented.
January 17, 2015
This blatantly big-hearted product isn't half as vibrant as the original 2005 Wired article on which it's based, and myopically neglects to address Arizona's troubling anti-immigration legislation through even a splash of hindsight.
May 21, 2015
A feel-good movie that would have felt even better with a shorter running time, "Spare Parts" is nonetheless an inspirational story that will warm your heart by film's end. It's far from perfect, but worth seeing.
February 13, 2015
The movie benefits from an air of earnest goodwill and well-turned performances.
June 04, 2015
McNamara's direction, his portrayal of the characters and their lives' circumstances is very superficial.[full review in Spanish]
June 12, 2015
The underwater robots almost make up for a lackluster and predictable ending. [full review in Spanish]
January 23, 2015
The film is moderately powerful in its exploration of the Latino students' lives outside the classroom, yet the dominant sequences involving the competition are right off the assembly line.
January 20, 2015
Sequences and scenes end unceremoniously, everyone in the movie seems to know each other's backstory before they're properly introduced, and mild jokes land with uncertainty.
January 16, 2015
Despite its clunkier elements, Matsueda's screenplay is alert to details that ground the film in the day-to-day lives of young people who are American in every way but technically.
