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Real Genius (1985)

★ 6.6 · 494 ratings on TMDB

When he gets mad, he doesn't get even… he gets creative.

Real Genius poster★ 6.6

When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.

DirectorMartha Coolidge
CastDaniel Ades, Ed Lauter, Gabriel Jarret, Jon Gries, Louis Giambalvo, Michelle Meyrink
GenresComedy, Romance, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Real Genius keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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