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Aug 7, 1985 · Real Genius: Directed by Martha Coolidge. With Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades, Andres Aybar, Louis Giambalvo. An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students.
Real Genius is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft, and PJ Torokvei, and starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret.
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Mitch Taylor, a 15-year-old genius, is accepted into a special college program. As part of the course he joins a special project, run by the renowned scientist Professor Jerry Hathaway and involving Chris Knight, a student whose genius is legendary.
When science whiz Mitch Taylor (Gabe Jarret) arrives at Pacific Tech as a freshman, he's paired up with genius senior Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) to work on a laser project.
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Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun. Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid.
Real Genius. Roger Ebert August 07, 1985. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The movie involves the saga of Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a brilliant high school student whose Science Fair project has revised the theory of laser beam technology.
Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun. Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid.
When a group of crazy college geniuses put their heads together, almost anything can happen. Hold on for a freewheeling, uproarious look at just how much mischief a bunch...
