Real Genius

Real Genius is a 1985 science fiction comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge. The films screenplay was written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft, and Peter Torokvei. It stars Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret.

A group of CIA officers watch a video presentation of a topsecret project called Crossbow a space shuttle mounted with a computerguided laser weapon incinerates a man on the ground with pinpoint accuracy. Researchers on the project have yet to devise a system to generate enough power to operate it. When it becomes clear that this weapon has no wartime applications and is intended solely for illegal assassinations, one agent decries the project as immoral. He is subsequently eliminated.Professor Jerry Hathaway Atherton meets high school student Mitch Taylor Jarret. He informs Mitch that he has been admitted to Pacific Technical University, where he will room with physics legend Chris Knight Kilmer. Hathaway is secretly developing the laser for the CIA instead of doing the work himself he has his unpaid students do it, and he misappropriates the project funding to remodel his house. Arriving on campus, Mitch meets Chris and is disappointed to learn that he is an irreverent slacker who spends his time pulling elaborate high tech pranks such as covering the dorm floor in ice for skating. Mitch also meets Jordan Meyrink, a hyperkinetic female student, and the mysterious Lazlo Hollyfeld Jon Gries, who seems to be living in Mitchs closet. Hathaways sycophantic graduate assistant Kent Prescott becomes hostile when Hathaway puts Mitch in charge of the laser project. ........

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