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It takes a math genius to raise a lot of money with pennies.

In Christopher Boone’s directorial feature film debut, Cents is a story about a Latina middle-schooler Sammy Baca as she uses her brilliant math skills to befriend the cool kids with the school penny drive.

The film stars the emerging talents of Julia Flores, Lillie Kolich, Jy Prishkulnik and Claire Carter.

Lrm has an exclusive clip from the inspirational film. The clip is entitled, “It’s Not Possible, It’s Math.”

Cents is available on VOD today.

Check out the exclusive clip below.

"I will not have you trivialize everything I have sacrificed to make things better for you." This fun indie flick plays nicely with the trailer for Gifted, also about a precocious young mathematician trying to hold her own in school. Cents is a coming-of-age film about a 12-year-old girl, played by Julia Flores, who uses her calculus skills to transform the penny drive at her school into a pyramid scheme. The cast includes Lillie Kolich, Jy Prishkulnik, Claire Carter, Monique Candelaria and Esodie Geiger. I was hoping this might be a hidden gem, but the trailer doesn't show much promise, unfortunately. Still worth a quick look. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Christopher Boone's Cents, direct from YouTube: Sammy (Julia Flores), an uncommonly smart twelve-year-old girl, uses her gift for mathematics and enlists her frenemies to revamp the school penny drive into a major moneymaking operation. Cents is both...