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Flash of Genius Trailer |
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3 October, 2008 |
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Overwiew :It is based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the automobile industry of United States. In fact the movie depicts the tale of one man whose fight to gain recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. However this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. The Kearns were a typical Detroit family of 1960s , who tried to live their version of the American Dream. Local university professor Bob got married to teacher Phyllis (Lauren Graham) . By their mid-thirties, they had 6 kids who brought them a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns thought that they have struck gold. But their aspirations are shattered after the auto giants who embraced Bob's creation unceremoniously shunned the man who invented it. Being rejected , threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what was done to his family and their future. He became a man who was obsessed with justice and the conviction that his life's work-or for that matter, anyone's work-be acknowledged by those who stood to benefit. Since he paid the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, David has tried to achieve the unthinkable, i.e, to bring Goliath to his knees. |
Starring :
Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Jake Abel, Bill Smitrovich, Aaron Abrams, Dermot Mulroney, Tim Kelleher, Landon Norris, Steven Woodsworth, Tim Eddis, Warren Belle, Karl Pruner (II), Bill Lake (II), Ronn Sarosiak (II), Tom Rooney, Andrew Gillies, Kate Greenhouse, Liam Titcomb, Sal Scozzari, Daniel Roebuck, Mitch Pileggi, Richard Blackburn, Michael Spencer-Davis, Michael Rhoades (II), Nicole Crozier, Sergio Di Zio, Jonathan Whittaker, Richard Fitzpatrick (II), Jared Durand, Matthew Edison, Kristian Truelsen, Simon Reynolds, Denis Akiyama, Quancetia Hamilton, Alan Alda, Tatiana Maslany, Conor O'Farrell (II), Bruce Gooch, Chuck Shamata
Directors :
Marc Abraham
Producers :
Jonathan Glickman, J. Miles Dale, Eric Newman, Thomas Bliss, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Michael Lieber
Writers :
Philip Railsback, John Seabrook |
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USA Today - Claudia Puig
: While some scenes deliver, Flash of Genius suffers from an occasional lack of narrative tension.
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B-
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold
: ...an uncompromising and ultimately chilling look at individual creativity trampled by corporate greed...
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A-
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San Francisco Chronicle - Peter Hartlaub
: Kinnear does a fantastic job of mining the subtleties in the character...
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B
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Rolling Stone - Peter Travers
: Kinnear takes the star spot in Flash of Genius and rides it to glory.
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B
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ReelViews - James Berardinelli
: ...fails to make viewers care with any depth about the story it's telling.
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B-
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New York Post - Lou Lumenick
: The flaws of Flash of Genius are worth putting up with for Kinnear's committed performance...
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B-
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filmcritic.com - Sean O'Connell
: ...a sober biopic with a surprisingly destructive core...
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B
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Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum
: The product is concept, not execution, and the delivery techniques bear standard Hollywood patents.
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B-
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E! Online - Luke Y. Thompson
: If all you want is to see a movie about a regular Joe triumphing over an evil corporation, that and only that is what you'll get.
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C+
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Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
: Kinnear, often a player of light comedy, does a convincing job of making this quiet, resolute man into a giant slayer.
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B
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ghanta20 says @ Saturday - October 11,2008
I have enjoyed every bit of the movie . Script was nice and actors too have portrayed their on-screen characters in a very good way. | | | | Reply | | |
angelariverac says @ Saturday - October 11,2008
It is such a movie which every one can enjoy with their family. Wonderfully made movie. | | | | Reply | | |
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