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Real Genius (1985)
Directed by Martha Coolidge
“When he gets mad, he doesn't get even… he gets creative.”
Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction · 1h 46m
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
Cast
Val Kilmer
Chris Knight
Gabriel Jarret
Mitch Taylor
Michelle Meyrink
Jordan
William Atherton
Professor Hathaway
Robert Prescott
Kent
Louis Giambalvo
Major Carnagle
Jon Gries
Lazlo Hollyfeld
Ed Lauter
CIA Man Decker
Stacy Peralta
Shuttle Pilot
Daniel Ades
Laser Ray Victim
A
Andres Aybar
Bartender
C
Charles Shull
Air Force General
Crew
- Director
- Martha Coolidge
- Screenplay
- Neal Israel, Pat Proft, PJ Torokvei
- Director of Photography
- Vilmos Zsigmond
- Original Music Composer
- Thomas Newman
- Editor
- Richard Chew
- Producer
- Brian Grazer
Details
- Release date
- 1985-08-07
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Tri-Star-Delphi III Productions, Brian Grazer Productions
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Box office
- $12,952,019