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Real Genius has real people, real comedy and real fun." [16] Richard Schickel of Time praised the film for being "a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight. Better results, and more fun, come from rubbing a few brains ...
Robert Prescott (born 1957) is an American actor who has appeared in film and on television. He is best known for his role as Kent in the 1985 hit comedy film Real Genius.He also starred in the 1984 comedy film Bachelor Party as Cole Whittier, and appeared in the 1987 Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs in a cameo as the Sand Cruiser Driver.
He played Lazlo Hollyfeld in Real Genius (1985), Azzolini in Rainbow Drive, Shawn McDermott in the TV series Martin (1992–1994), Ronnie Wingate in Get Shorty (1995), Harvey in The Rundown, and Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite (2004). Gries has played a werewolf on several occasions, such as Fright Night Part 2 and The Monster Squad.
His most notable appearance was as Mitch Taylor alongside Val Kilmer's Chris Knight in the movie Real Genius. Other film roles include The Karate Kid Part III, Apollo 13 and Last Days. Jarret also made television guest appearances in such shows as 21 Jump Street, L.A. Law, Party of Five, and The West Wing.
In 1984, Peralta also directed and produced the first-ever skate video, the Bones Brigade Video Show.. Peralta is also credited in the 1985 movie Real Genius, playing the commander of a fictional space vehicle delivering a deadly laser blast to an unsuspecting criminal during the film's opening scene.
(1984) and Real Genius (1985), as well as the military action film Top Gun (1986) and the fantasy film Willow (1988). Kilmer gained acclaim for his portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991). He was cast as a main character in films such as the western Tombstone (1993), and the crime dramas True Romance (1993) and Heat (1995).
Giambalvo was born and raised in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, where he attended Catholic school. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and MFA from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) and was a founding member of the avant-garde Colonnades Theater Lab in Greenwich Village, along with other members Danny DeVito and Peter Scolari. [2]
Genius is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Michael Grandage and written by John Logan, based on the 1978 National Book Award-winner Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg. The film stars Colin Firth , Jude Law , Nicole Kidman , Laura Linney , Dominic West , and Guy Pearce .