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I.Q.
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Overview

User Rating:
5.9/10   10,056 votes
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Director:
Fred Schepisi
Writers (WGA):
Andy Breckman (story)
Andy Breckman (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
25 December 1994 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Think Love. more
Plot:
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist. full summary | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
Rip: Lou Jacobi
 (From Cinematical. 28 October 2009, 3:18 PM, PDT)

Actor Jacobi Dies
 (From WENN. 26 October 2009, 5:21 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
perfect blend of goofy, sweet, funny, romantic and scientific more (65 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tim Robbins ... Ed Walters

Meg Ryan ... Catherine Boyd

Walter Matthau ... Albert Einstein
Lou Jacobi ... Kurt Gödel
Gene Saks ... Boris Podolsky
Joseph Maher ... Nathan Liebknecht

Stephen Fry ... James Moreland

Tony Shalhoub ... Bob Rosetti
Frank Whaley ... Frank
Charles Durning ... Louis Bamberger
Keene Curtis ... Eisenhower

Alice Playten ... Gretchen

Danny Zorn ... Dennis
Helen Hanft ... Rose
Roger Berlind ... Duncan
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Cranbury, New Jersey, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The close-ups of Ed manipulating the wooden puzzles feature the hands of enigmatologist John Chaneski. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Ed checks the wrong answers for several questions in the I.Q. test. more
Quotes:
Ed Walters: Frank, this is Albert Einstein, the smartest man in the world.
Frank: [greeting Einstein] How they hanging?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game K N B: (2007-03-03)" (2007) more
Soundtrack:
SH-BOOM (LIFE COULD BE A DREAM) more

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perfect blend of goofy, sweet, funny, romantic and scientific, 25 June 2005
10/10
Author: trenkabenthin from United States

Bottom line - best romantic comedy ever. This movie accomplishes what all great movies strive for: the creation of a world and time that we want to re-visit and makes us glad to be part of the human race. When I am blue, this movie lifts my spirit and makes me laugh (and that is still true after many viewings - always fresh).

All of the actors are in top form. The characterizations are so dead on and the characters mesh so well together that you forget the actor (usually difficult to do with Matthau, Robbins and Ryan). The supporting cast is consistently brilliant: Fry ("agae", "a total pygmy package"!), Jacoby & Saks & Maher (the three theoretical physicists as "Greek chorus" - "but time doesn't exist"), Durning ("something we can launch from NJ"), Shalhoub & Whaley (Robbins' boss and co-worker at the service station), and Curits (Eisenhower - how many comedies have Eisenhower??).

Don't miss this overlooked treasure.

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