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They Have One Night To Solve The World's Problems.Plot:
Seven geniuses, with IQs over 200, are plucked from their lives on Christmas Eve to try to solve the world's problems in one night. full summary | full synopsisUser Comments:
I enjoyed the film very much moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Carol Abney | ... | Julia Endersol | |
| Stephen Baldwin | ... | Rory Johnson | |
| Jacob Bonnema | ... | Jacob Chernov | |
| Tricia Helfer | ... | Ally Simon | |
| Matt Medrano | ... | Jose Delgado | |
| Philip Moon | ... | Professor Lee | |
| Paula Jai Parker | ... | Tatiana | |
| Huntley Ritter | ... | Brian Mehlman | |
| Jack Scalia | ... | President | |
| Tom Sizemore | ... | Armand | |
| Delaine Yates | ... | Karen Mehlman | |
| Arch Bonnema | ... | Chief of Staff | |
| Jack Guzman | ... | Steve | |
| Evan Grayson | ... | Oliver | |
| Rachel Wittman | ... | Field reporter |
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Rated PG for thematic elements and some disturbing content.Parents Guide:
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Over 50 set-up shots were filmed in 1 day during the biggest scene in the movie. All of the actors had to perform and memorize close to 20 pages in 1 day. Yet they came through with flying colors, performing admirably and everyone still went home at 6 p.m. moreSoundtrack:
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Seldom does a movie show the culpability of our culture,of our society, in the mayhem and madness we often find in everyday life. The film shows how our world is drifting through darkness. The mouthpiece for this thematic undercurrent is Armand, a genius who plans to blow up the city of DC unless a group of geniuses find answers to the world's problems.
The geniuses are a professor, a seminary student, a casino owner, a pizza delivery guy, and others.
Armand provides the film's final thematic statement by giving the password to the bomb in '3 words'.
Working on us to reinforce this world as Armand sees it is the film's astounding mise-en- scene, a disturbing film-noir setting developed by the director and cinematographer. Flashlights barely illuminate the metallic walls of the 'genius' lair. A giant screen overlooking the genius table provides a '1984' look of Big Brother and the pursuant scoreboard that ticks up or down, dependent on the answers provided by the geniuses. Bird's-eye-view shots of Washington, DC show the world in peril. Thus, the film's closing scene is in bright sunlight, which by then only serves as ironic counterpoint to what we see happening throughout the night.
This is Armand's vision; both inhabited and described by Brian Mehlman, the FBI agent working for Homeland Security.
Though gripping and mysterious, this is not an action film. It holds our interest through the workings of the issues and more astonishingly, the inner workings of the past histories of each genius.
This is a very lean, dialogue-driven, tight film. It shows humanity in the end, even in the terrorist who lost his wife to cancer and to the pizza guy who lost his mother in a hit-and- run accident.