Flash of Genius PG-13

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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 17, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Rating: 2.5/4 -- ...many of Flash of Genius' problems stem from an overlong and padded-out running time... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Oct 4, 2018
Seriously undermined by the skeletal script, which barely develops the characters and unintentionally raises more questions about Kearns's quixotic battle than it answers. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 10, 2008
Nothing too special here. Full Review
At the Movies
Nov 10, 2008
Kinnear inhabits the terrifically uncomfortable role of the rabbit staked out in a clearing to attract wolves. Full Review
East Bay Express
Aug 15, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- Kinnear is outstanding as Kearns, physically conveying the stubborn, scruffy sense of resolute ethics that drives him at the expense of almost everything else. Full Review
American Profile
Sep 28, 2011
3 stars out of 4 -- Kearns' conflict is readable in Kinnear's every word and gesture. His performance is worth cheering.
Rolling Stone
Oct 16, 2008
Rating: 3/5 -- ... an impeccable performance from Greg Kinnear... [Full review in Spanish] Full Review
Rincón de cine
Mar 19, 2018

Product Description:

Veteran producer Marc Abraham makes his feature film debut with FLASH OF GENIUS, based on a true story set in Detroit and spanning multiple decades. Dr. Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) has a good life. A respected college professor who teaches electrical engineering, he has a lovely wife (Lauren Graham) and six great kids. But first and foremost, Kearns is an inventor. In 1967, he built the intermittent windshield wiper, dubbing it "Kearns' Blinking Eye," and ultimately shared his patented specs with Ford Motor Company so that he could manufacture the wipers for them. Then he spends his life trying to get Ford to admit that they stole his idea when he spots his invention on Ford cars after they bail out of the deal with him. Kearns isn't after money. In taking on one of the most powerful corporations in America, if not the world, Kearns wants Ford to tell the truth and give credit where credit is due. At the same time, he wants to protect the patent process for every inventor.

Kinnear gives a nuanced performance as Kearns, a quirky, church-going family man and professor who slowly descends into paranoia and obsession with reaching his goals. Graham fits the bill as a loving but independent wife and mother who finds herself competing with her husband's quest. Dermot Mulroney is solid as Kearns's childhood friend and early business partner. And it's a treat to see Alan Alda as a justice-seeking lawyer who may or not be able to live up to Kearns's high expectations. FLASH OF GENIUS is based on a John Seabrook article that appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, and his later book of the same name.

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