Real Genius

Real Genius

1985 · 1 hr 48 min · PG

Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Directors

Martha Coolidge

Actors

  • Val Kilmer
  • Stacy Peralta
  • Daniel Ades

Credits: 2

Summary

An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the...

More about this movie

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.