Real Genius
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Real Genius is a 1985 comedy about two brilliant students that head a team of young geniuses developing a laser for what they believe is a class project. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the government for use as a weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.
When he gets mad, he doesn't get even... he gets creative. Taglines
- Directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft, and Peter Torokvei.
Chris Knight
- [to a girl at a party] Don't eat that. Don't you know that eating that can give you very large breasts? [looks down at her chest] Oh my God, I'm too late!
- [to Mitch, as he is hanging upside down] Would you prepared if gravity reversed itself? The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets. I've got it. Nudity.
Dialogue
- Mrs. Taylor: Dr. Hathaway, I saw your program on radioactive isotopes last night, and I've got a question.
- Jerry Hathaway: Yes?
- Mrs. Taylor: Is that your real hair?
- Jerry Hathaway: Tell me something. Is Mitch by any chance adopted?
- Mrs. Taylor: Why, no!
- Jerry Hathaway: Amazing.
- Mrs. Taylor: Isn't it?
- Jerry Hathaway: Mitch, will you miss your friends?
- Mitch: Well, no. I think I intimidate other kids.
- Jerry Hathaway: Good boy.
- Mitch: Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
- Chris Knight: You've seen him too?
- Mitch: Who is he?
- Chris Knight: Hollyfeld.
- Mitch: Why does he keep going into our closet?
- Chris Knight: Why do you keep going into our closet?
- Mitch: To get my clothes - but that's not why he goes in there.
- Chris Knight: Of course not, he's twice your size - your clothes would never fit him.
- Mitch: Yeah...
- Chris Knight: Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?
- Chris Knight: I'm sorry. It's just that I didn't want you guys to think I was stuffy. You know, no fun. All brain no penis. I'm sorry, it was just an infantile response to authority.
- Recruiter: Yes. You are Chris Knight, aren't you?
- Chris Knight: I hope so. I'm wearing his underwear.
- Chris Knight: I'm sorry, but have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?
- David Decker: She happens to be my daughter.
- Chris Knight: Oh. Then I guess you have.
- Chris Knight: No seriously, listen...if there's ever anything I can do for you, or more to the point, to you, you let me know, okay?
- Susan Decker: Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?
- Chris Knight: Not right now.
- Susan Decker: A girl's got to have her standards.
- Jerry Hathaway: To graduate, dear boy, you need my class. So it seems I have something to say about what you do and where you go.
- Chris Knight: OK, if you think that by threatening me, you can get me to be your slave, well... that's where you're right, but - and I'm only saying this because I care - there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.
- Jerry Hathaway: I'm not kidding, Chris.
- Chris Knight: Neither am I, Jerry.
Taglines
- When he gets mad, he doesn't get even... he gets creative.
- MEET CHRIS KNIGHT, THE EINSTEIN OF THE '80'S. He can turn the simple into the simply amazing, and now he turns revenge into high comedy.
- It's yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility.
Cast
- Val Kilmer - Chris Knight
- Gabriel Jarret - Mitch Taylor
- Michelle Meyrink- Jordan Cochran
- William Atherton - Prof. Jerry Hathaway
- Robert Prescott - Kent Torokvei
- Jon Gries - Lazlo Hollyfeld
- Patti D'Arbanville - Sherry Nugil
- Tommy Swerdlow - Bodie
- Mark Kamiyama - 'Ick' Ikagami