in 1995 sean patrick flanery be 30 year old while too old for the part . a albino adolescent genius who would make einstein and hawk look like preschooler be treat like a parolee . what kind of school counselor would send such a person on a camping trip with teenage hoodlum under the supervision of a gun fetish and stump jumping deputy . telepathy and telekinesis take a back seat to the antic of redneck cop . anyone and anywhere with this kind of power would have come to the attention of someone vastly more important than a grey flannel suit department of education bureaucrat . in the real world powder would be keep at area 51 .