I.Q. (1994)

Director:

Fred Schepisi

Writers (WGA):

Andy Breckman (story)
Andy Breckman (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

25 December 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Think Love.

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.

Plot Keywords:

Watch | Entire Title Is Capitalized Acronym | Love | Acronym In Title | Male Female Relationship

Cast

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

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color (DeLuxe)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:G | Peru:PT | Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 (w) | Ireland:G | Netherlands:AL | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Cranbury, New Jersey, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

When Einstein describes his work with Ed Walters as "attraction at a distance", this is a play on Albert Einstein's well-known work on what he termed "action-at-a-distance".

Goofs:

Continuity: The juxtaposition of Ed Walter and Catherine Boyd when out on the patio.

Quotes:

Ed Walters: It was like death - but in a good way.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Wild One (1953)

Soundtrack:

ROSES FROM THE SOUTH

perfect blend of goofy, sweet, funny, romantic and scientific

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.