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Flash of Genius
Director: Marc Abraham
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney
Language: English
Country: United States
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Flash of Genius is an film directed by Marc Abraham and starring Greg Kinnear, Dermot Mulroney, and Lauren Graham. The screenplay was written by Philip Railsback with revisions by director Abraham and Scott Frank, and based on a New Yorker story of same title by John Seabrook. The film has been completed and is set to be released on October 3, 2008. It is rated PG-13 for brief strong language by the MPAA.
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’ (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But 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 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their version of the American Dream. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and, by their mid-thirties, had six 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 think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants who embraced Bob’s creation unceremoniously shunned the man who invented it. Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what was done to his family and their future. He becomes a man 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. And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, this everyday David will try the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees.
Cast:
- Greg Kinnear as Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper who spent most of his life battling the Detroit automakers he charged with stealing his invention.
- Lauren Graham as Phyllis Kearns, Bob’s wife
- Dermot Mulroney as Gil Privick, Kearns’ best friend
- Alan Alda as Gregory Lawson, Kearns’ lawyer
- Mitch Pileggi
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