Through trial and error, the brothers discover that if you stuff a sock with sand, soak it in gasoline, light it with a match and shoot it into the sky, it looks just like an asteroid when it comes screaming back to Earth.

It’s the mid-1990s. Rhett and Burke Lewis, their camcorder at the ready, are waiting till it gets dark so they can start launching the socks and filming the action from the backyard of their home in the small Cache Valley town of Millville. After the mayhem is over, before heading off to bed, the boys check the images in their camcorder, pleased with their work.

All is well until the next morning, when Barbara Lewis, aka Mom, looks out the window and sees the backyard full of burned-out craters.

She grounds the boys from the thing they love most in life … their camcor

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