Real Genius
– Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly..
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. 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.
07 Aug 1985
English
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Martha Coolidge
Neal Israel (screenplay), Neal Israel (story), Pat Proft (screenplay), Pat Proft (story), Pj Torokvei
Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton
Mitch Taylor is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He partners up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyperkinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius means. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the military for use as a weapon, they decide to get even.
2 wins & 2 nominations.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment