I.Q. (film)
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| Directed by | Fred Schepisi |
| Produced by | Carol Baum |
| Written by | Andy Breckman |
| Starring | Tim Robbins Meg Ryan Walter Matthau |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith Danny Michael |
| Cinematography | Ian Baker |
| Editing by | Jill Bilcock |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 25, 1994 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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I.Q. is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan and Walter Matthau.
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[edit] Plot details
Tim Robbins is an amiable garage mechanic named Ed who finds Meg Ryan's character Catherine Boyd, a beautiful and intelligent Princeton University mathematics doctoral candidate, as she comes into the garage (accompanied by her stiff and fussy British fiancé, an experimental psychology professor, played by Stephen Fry). There is an immediate connection, but she refuses to acknowledge it. Finding a watch she left at the garage, Ed travels to her address and finds himself face to face with Albert Einstein (played by Walter Matthau), who is Catherine's uncle. Albert, portrayed as a fun loving genius along with his mischievous friends Nathan, Kurt, and Boris, sees in Ed someone who would be better suited for Catherine, and attempts to help Ed look and sound more like a scientist (i.e., a wunderkind in physics), while at the same time trying to convince Catherine that life is not all about numbers but about the heart as well.
Tagline: Think Love.
[edit] Trivia
- In real life, Albert Einstein didn't have a niece by the name of Catherine Boyd.
- Kurt Gödel was famously shy and introverted, unlike his fictional counterpart in this film.
- The movie gives the impression that Albert and his friends were all around the same age, when they, in fact, were between 17 and 30 years younger than Albert.
- The real life Louis Bamberger died in 1944, before the time period of this movie.
[edit] Cast and roles include
- 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
