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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.
- (38K)
- Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Martha Coolidge
- 1985-08-07
Student in Cafeteria (uncredited) Joy Michelle Moore. ... Party Girl on Surfboard (uncredited) Kimberly Spak. ... Young Girl in Popcorn (uncredited) Tom Tangen.
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. The film, set on the campus of Pacific Tech, a science and engineering university similar to Caltech, follows Chris Knight (Kilmer), a genius in his senior year ...
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- 2 min
- 106.4K
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- 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.
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. He is personally recruited by Professor Hathaway (William Atherton), a famous physics professor who wants the kid to work in his personal laboratory. Once on campus, the kid meets the legendary Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), the most ...
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. Mitch initially doesn't ...
- (35)
- Comedy
- PG
