Real Genius (1985)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 17 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Synopsis:
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... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton
Director: Martha Coolidge
Screenwriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Peter Torokvei
Producer: Brian Grazer
Composer: Thomas Newman
Screenwriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Peter Torokvei
Producer: Brian Grazer
Composer: Thomas Newman
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Reviews
The humor is relentlessly cruel, smug, and disconnected from any sense of how human beings might behave in similar situations.
05/30/07 09:08 PM
Top Critic This disappointing teen comedy from director Martha Coolidge is another entry in the rash of teens-goofing-with-science films.
05/30/07 09:07 PM
Top Critic
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.
05/30/07 09:06 PM
Top Critic The movie gets stuck as a run-of-the-mill teen revenge comedy.
05/30/07 09:02 PM
Top Critic 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.
06/24/06 04:23 AM
great fun and full of 1980s relics, from the now-antiquated computers to the box of Donkey Kong cereal to a finale set to Tears for Fears...
10/13/05 05:16 PM
What the film needs, instead of these familiar teen-movie trappings, is a cleverness and eccentricity to match that of its characters. For the most part, these are qualities that it lacks.
05/20/03 05:18 PM
Top Critic
Like Risky Business, this not only rose above the 1980s teen comedy genre, but stuck it to the Reagan administration as well.
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