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Prof. Simon Mendelssohn
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Simon is a 1980 American comedy film written and directed by Marshall Brickman and starring Alan Arkin. The plot concerns a university professor manipulated into thinking he is an alien from space by a think tank, whose members scheme to use him to create a media circus.
Simon: Directed by Marshall Brickman. With Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart. A group of scientists takes Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment.
A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living being from another planet.
This bizarre comedy centers on Simon Mendelssohn (Alan Arkin), a preening professor of psychology who is mischievously duped into believing that he is an extraterrestrial.
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Jun 2, 2015 · Simon (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Massive Anxiety Ensues Neurotic psychology professor Alan Arkin (title character) is explaining to girlfriend Lisa (Judy Graubart from The Electric Company!) about his freelance sensory-deprivation experiment, with help from student Josh (Keith Szarabajka), in writer-director Marshall Brickman’s Simon, 1980.
When a group of scientists decide to create an alien, they choose Simon, a psychology professor, for the experiment. They brainwash him into believing he's an alien. 81 IMDb 6.3 1 h 37 min 1980. X-Ray PG.
When they realize that a large segment of the public believes in aliens from outer space, they concoct a plan to brainwash a NYC college philosophy professor Simon Mendelssohn and make him think he is an alien and then make the media and public believe he is real.
