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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. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the plan.
- (38K)
- Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Martha Coolidge
- 1985-08-07
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.
Jul 26, 2019 · This time that awesomeness is Martha Coolidge. She is probably best known to '80s fans as the director of Valley Girl (1983) and Real Genius (1985). She was a trailblazer by becoming a female director of feature films at a time when that was almost unheard of.
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- Producer Brian Grazer wanted Valley Girl director Martha Coolidge to direct Real Genius. She wasn’t sure she wanted to. Following the commercial success of 1984’s Revenge of the Nerds, there was an influx of bawdy scripts that played upon the same idea, and Real Genius was one of them.
- Martha Coolidge’s priority was getting the science in Real Genius right—or at least as right as possible. In the film, ambitious professor Jerry Hathaway (William Atherton) recruits high-achieving students at the fictional Pacific Technical University (inspired by Caltech) to design and build a laser capable of hitting a human-sized target from space.
- One element of Real Genius that Martha Coolidge didn’t base on real events turned out to be truer than expected. From the beginning, the idea that students were actively being exploited by their teacher to develop government technology was always fictional.
- Val Kilmer walked into his Real Genius audition already in character—and it nearly cost him the role. After playing the lead in Top Secret! , Val Kilmer was firmly on Hollywood’s radar.
Real Genius centers on several students at Pac Tech, an institution esteemed for its technological breakthroughs. They're currently working on a project to b...
The Movie Geeks United podcast celebrates the 30th anniversary of the film Real Genius by featuring a replay of an interview with director Martha Coolidge.Fo...
Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946) is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. She has directed such films as Valley Girl , Real Genius and Rambling Rose .
