Real Genius

(1985)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 523 votes

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Year: 1985

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Martha Coolidge

Cast: Вэл Килмер, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton, Robert Prescott, Louis Giambalvo, Джон Гриз, Эд Лотер, Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades

Plot

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.

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.