霍阿满与女友薛丽在一次郊游中不慎摔下 崖，使年轻、聪明、灵活甚至狡黠的阿满 在特定的时间范围里思维和心态变成六岁 孩子，对自己是个记者，说过不少假话而 羞愧万分。 阿满不做调查研究，把一个早已倒闭两年 的乡镇企业，写成“一颗明星闪闪亮”的新闻 报道，引来了四方参观团、检查团、拉赞 助团体在黄家镇的云集，给地方政府造成 了极坏后果。 影片无情地鞭苔了报社钟主任、黄镇长等 人顾及面子知错不改的错误思想，歌颂了 以市委刘书记为首、幼儿教师及几个年轻 实习记者坚持事实，敢讲真话的优秀品 质，积极倡导了我党一贯坚持的事实求是 的工作作风。 同时，影片假借阿满对做六岁儿童那天的 怀念，表达了人们在现实生活中渴望拥有 真诚、善良、美好、纯洁的愿望，具有强 烈的现实教育意义。
Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up. This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine). It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?
