7.5
Score
Budget$8M
Box office$13M
LanguageEN
CountriesUnited States of America
Real Genius
When he gets mad, he doesn't get even… he gets creative.
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.
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Real Genius · 1985
Seize the day. Takes are best fresh.
Art
- Josan F. Russo Production Design
- Jack G. Taylor Jr. Art Direction
- Phil Abramson Set Decoration
- Erin M. Cummings Set Designer
- Steven Wolff Set Designer
- Alex Tavoularis Other
- Terry E. Lewis Property Master
- Sandra Renfroe Assistant Property Master
- David L. Glazer Assistant Property Master
- James Husbands Leadman
- Mark S. Taylor Set Dresser
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Sound
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Thomas Newman
Original Music Composer
- Becky Mancuso-Winding Music Supervisor
- Michael Papale Music Supervisor
- Julia Evershade Supervising Sound Editor
- George Budd Sound Designer
- Ted Whitfield Music Editor
- Anna Boorstin Sound Editor
- Virginia Cook-McGowan Sound Editor
- Cari Lewis Sound Editor
- Marshall Winn Sound Editor
- Roxanne Jones McCarthy Sound Editor
- Beth Bergeron Supervising ADR Editor
- Lauren Palmer ADR Editor
- Paul C. Warschilka Assistant Sound Editor
- Christy Richmond Assistant Sound Editor
- John P. Fasal Sound Effects
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Doug Hemphill
Sound Effects
- Carlton Kaller Other
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John Roesch
Foley Artist
- Ellen Heuer Foley Artist
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Gary A. Hecker
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- John T. Reitz Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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- John Vigran Music Consultant
- Donald A. Bolger Boom Operator