If you loved Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!, try Race the Sun

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Race the Sun has roughly 3.6× fewer votes than Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Charles T. Kanganis, and they both carry the cozy mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Race the Sun is

Here's a film that asks: what if some underdog kids built a solar car? The new science teacher at a Hawaiian high school inspires his misfit students to enter their creation in a prestigious Australian race. The result is perfectly watchable, if you like that sort of thing.

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