A Kristen Stewart heist movie gave me a thirst for adventure - I found it as an engineer on a remote oil rig

A weekly family trip to a video rental store led to watching a 2004 comedy about three kids who rob a bank to fund a father’s expensive surgery. The heist succeeds and the trio escape on go-karts, creating a vivid moment of excitement and desire to drive fast. The viewer fixates on the thrill of fast machines and money, more than the romantic plot elements. At age 13, they declare an ambition to become the first Black, female, Muslim Formula One driver. Parents expect it to be temporary, but the ambition persists through reading car books and collecting posters of iconic cars.

"Released in 2004, Catch That Kid tells the story of three kids who rob a bank to pay for Stewart's father's expensive surgery. I often describe the film as The Italian job, but for preteens. There are all manner of shenanigans but, most importantly, the heist is successful and the trio escape on go-karts. It was this element of the film not the duplicitous declarations of love Stewart makes to both boys to convince them to help, not the love of climbing that caused her father's injuries in the first place that really caught my eye."

"I remember the moment vividly: sandwiched between my distractible brother and bored mother on the couch, in awe at Stewart and her two loverboys screaming away in fast little machines, surrounded by piles of money. I want to do that, I thought. More than anything else in the world, I wanted to drive fast. With all the self-importance of a 13-year-old making a declaration about the rest of their life, I told my mum: I am going to become the first black, female, Muslim Formula One driver."

"This was pre-Lewis Hamilton, of course. OK, she replied. After you go wash the dishes My parents were certain that this was a phase. But somehow, it wasn't. I read every single book about cars in the local library, I stuck posters up of 1963 Corvette Sting Rays and McLaren F1s on my walls. I'd been attracted by the adventure; the idea of taking a helicopter to work; and the payche"

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