Storyline
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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Cast
Dean Devlin, Val Kilmer, Kimberly Spak, Jon Gries, William Atherton, Tommy Swerdlow, JoAnn Willette, Patti D'Arbanville, Ed Lauter, Joanne Baron, Robert Prescott, Gabriel Jarret, Yuji Okumoto, Stacy Peralta, Sandy Martin, Louis Giambalvo, Beau Billingslea, Michelle Meyrink, Joy Michelle Moore, Monte Landis, Lynda Wiesmeier, Severn Darden, Penny Baker, Marcia Karr, Deborah Foreman, Isabel Cooley, Ed Garrabrandt, John Vasily, Catherine MacNamara
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Reviews
91
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
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
Real Genius contains many pleasures, but one of the best is its conviction that the American campus contains life as we know it.
80
Fabulously acted and written with zing and zong, it's one of the few enjoyable movies of the summer.
70
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.
