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| Directed by | Fred Schepisi |
| Produced by | Fred Schepisi Carol Baum Scott Rudin Neil A. Machlis |
| Written by | Andy Breckman |
| Starring | Tim Robbins Meg Ryan Walter Matthau |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Ian Baker |
| Editing by | Jill Bilcock |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 25, 1994 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English German |
| Budget | $25,000,000 |
| Box office | $26,381,221 |
I.Q. is a 1994 American romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, and Walter Matthau. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The film centers on a mechanic and a Princeton doctoral candidate who fall in love, thanks to the candidate's uncle, Albert Einstein.
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An amiable garage mechanic, Ed Walters (Tim Robbins), meets Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan), a beautiful Princeton University mathematics doctoral candidate, as she comes into the garage, accompanied by her stiff and fussy English fiancé, experimental psychology professor James Moreland (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 (Walter Matthau), who is Catherine's uncle.
Albert, portrayed as a fun-loving genius who along with his mischievous friends, fellow scientists Nathan Liebknecht (Joseph Maher), Kurt Gödel (Lou Jacobi), and Boris Podolsky (Gene Saks), sees Ed as someone who would be better suited for Catherine. The four of them attempt 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 the mind but about the heart as well. This is intended to be Einstein's most enduring legacy to his niece as he realizes that he'll not be available for her for very much longer. Catherine eventually sees through the ruse, but falls for Ed anyway. The very last image in the movie is of a smiling Albert Einstein using a small telescope to spy on the two young moonstruck lovers as they take delight in each other's company.
For dramatic reasons, I.Q. fictionalizes several real people. Albert Einstein did not have a niece by the name of Catherine Boyd. Kurt Gödel was famously shy and reclusive,[1] unlike his fictional counterpart in this film. The movie gives the impression that Einstein and his friends were all around the same age, when in fact, they were between 17 and 30 years younger than Einstein. The real-life Louis Bamberger died in 1944, before the film's set period. The film also uses Little Richard's "Tutti-Fruitti," which was released in November 1955, while Albert Einstein died in April of that year.
I.Q. opened at #11 in its opening weekend (12/25-27) with $3,131,201.[2] By the time the film closed, it had made $26,381,221 worldwide.[3]
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