Real Genius (1985)


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.

Real Genius (1985)

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Released Year: 1985
Runtime: 106 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Directors: Martha Coolidge
Writers: Peter Torokvei

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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.

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Reviews


91
The A.V. Club - Scott Tobias
Martha Coolidge's bright, whimsical Real Genius can credit part of its substantial and richly deserved cult following to the fact that nothing has changed: Raunchy, lowbrow teen comedies are forever in vogue, and SDI is still an impossible, money-sucking political mirage.
90
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas
It's a brisk, smart satirical comedy from the writers of "Police Academy" and the director of "Valley Girl," set in a Caltech-like institution for the whiz kids of the sciences. How refreshing it is to see young people depicted as having a capacity for thought as well as emotion.
88
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
Real Genius contains many pleasures, but one of the best is its conviction that the American campus contains life as we know it.
80
Washington Post - Paul Attanasio
Fabulously acted and written with zing and zong, it's one of the few enjoyable movies of the summer.
70
Variety - Unnamed
What lifts the production above the run-of-the-mill is swift direction by Martha Coolidge, who has a firm grasp over the manic material.

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