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- IMDb Code: 0089886
- Filming Date:
- Plot Keyword: Laser | Weapon | Genius | Professor | Student
- Runtime: 108 min
- Rate: 7.0/10 total 21,786 votes
- Director: Martha Coolidge
- Filming Location: Claremont, California, USA
- Stars: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink | See full cast and crew »
- Original Music By: Thomas Newman
- Genre: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
- Gross: $13,000,000 (USA)
- Soundtrack: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
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- Release Date: 7 August 1985 (USA)
- Sound Mix: Dolby
- (in alphabetical order)
- Neal Israel screenplay
- Neal Israel story
- Pat Proft screenplay
- Pat Proft story
- Pj Torokvei
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Real Genius (1985) Known Trivia
- In 2010, actor William Atherton told "The A.V. Club" that the popcorn used in the final scenes was treated with a flame-retardant chemical and so the crew went to great lengths to guard it against being eaten by birds, which would have died from the contaminant. Atherton also said that even with a machine in the studio dedicated to doing nothing but popping the popcorn, it took three months to pop it all. 18 of 18 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- The film was inspired and based loosely on actual events at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. 15 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- When Hollyfeld sends in a large number of entries to the Frito-Lay contest, he is mirroring the actions of Caltech students Steve Klein, Dave Novikoff and Barry Megdal, who, in 1974, used a similar strategy to win a McDonald's sweepstakes. Their entries came to roughly 1/5th of the total entries and won them a station wagon, $3,000 cash and $1,500 in food gift certificates. 12 of 12 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- The recurrence of the initials "DEI" in the movie is no accident. The truck that is used to transport the popcorn to Dr. Hathaway's new house has "Drain Experts Inc." emblazoned on its side. The company Chris interviews with at the beginning (and which funds Dr. Hathaway's show "Everything") is Darlington Electronic Instruments. The initials are rumored to have been inscribed by Caltech alumni at (among other places) the summit of Everest, on the moon and on many satellites and space probes manufactured at Jet Propulsion Labs (which sits just up the hill from Caltech in Pasadena). There has long been an unofficial contest to see who could place the letters DEI into the most prominent public view. Their placement in this film was with the full complicity of director Martha Coolidge and her Caltech advisor, David Marvit. 17 of 18 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- The "liquid nitrogen" coins have baffled viewers for many years, and are considered by many to be a goof. However the very first draft of the script shows that it wasn't an error. The thermos contains liquid nitrogen, which in turn contains a column of super-cooled CO2 (dry ice), which is what Chris uses in the vending machine. 11 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- The coordinates for Hathaway's house are given in the film as "34D 10M 15.21S NORTH, 119D 7M ..." Assuming the longitude is in the western hemisphere, that's somewhere in an area of farmlands east of Oxnard, California. The script gave a slightly different set of coordinates: "Thirty-four degrees, ten minutes, fifteen seconds North; one hundred eighteen degrees, nine minutes, three seconds West." The building at that location is a mortuary in Pasadena, a few blocks north of Caltech. 9 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- A scene where Chris floats outside his classroom suspended in a lounge chair attached to several balloons appeared in the preview version but not the release version. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- When Chris and Mitch enter the plane, a background technician speaks "Final check: latitude 65 degrees, 19 minutes, longitude 44 degrees, 09 minutes." These coordinates lie in Russia just below the Arctic Circle near the White Sea, which was a key Soviet, now Russian Federation, naval and submarine base. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- The math professor portrayed in the movie is played by Dr. Martin Gundersen, who is actually a physics professor at the University of Southern California. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
- In earlier versions of the script the Potassium-Cyanide laser, not the Bromide-Argon laser, used frozen fuel. This is why Chris tells the laser to "stay cool" before he goes off to take Hatheway's exam. 7 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
Real Genius (1985) Plot: Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a laser. Full summary » | »
Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr Hathaway is wearing a wedding ring even though he is single .
Real Genius (1985) Story: Mitch is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He's partnered up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyper-kinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius is. When their final, functional laser is stolen by their teacher for a military weapon, they decide to get even. Written byLordship <lordship@juno.com>
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