Real Genius PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 11, 2002
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Val Kilmer | |
Performer: | Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink & William Atherton | |
Directed by | Martha Coolidge | |
Edited by | Richard Chew | |
Screenwriting by | Neal Israel, Pat Proft & Peter Torokvei | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Brian Grazer | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
Coolidge has gotten onto something here, and the pity is that the story she's stuck with never gets her any deeper into it.
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Washington Post
What lifts the production above the run-of-the-mill is swift direction by Martha Coolidge, who has a firm grasp over the manic material.
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Variety
...REAL GENIUS lives up to its title....There are laughs amid serious implications, a high level of inventiveness and a thicket of scientific nomenclature...
Los Angeles Times
The humor is relentlessly cruel, smug, and disconnected from any sense of how human beings might behave in similar situations.
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Chicago Reader
It does make you wonder if the drive of the US education system is ultimately to develop better weapons of mass-destruction, though Coolidge's movie is too hazily good-natured to capitalise on the tougher aspects of the material.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
'80s college comedy with some sex jokes, cursing.
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Common Sense Media
...[The] performances are a plus with Kilmer energetic and enjoyable to watch and Jarret endearingly sincere...
Variety
Product Description:
When 15-year-old science genius Mitch Taylor (Gabe Jarrett) is recruited by the pompous Professor Hathaway (William Atherton) to be part of a special research team, he has no idea he will be working on a top secret military weapon. Enrolling at Pacific Tech College, he meets his fellow whiz kid classmates, including infamous senior Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), whose intelligence and irreverent behavior are legendary; they become roommates, despite their different approaches to life. When Hathaway threatens to expel Chris for bad behavior, the two brains join forces to finish the special laser project before it is too late, in the process unveiling secrets about the project that inspire them to plot an elaborate revenge.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 126,907
- UPC: 043396077348
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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