Word: kulyenchikov
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...instead, falls for a ravishing but ignorant peasant in a remote Russian village. The premise unfolds quickly. An unfortunate group of Soviet serfs living in a secluded part of the Ukraine has been smitten with a curse that renders them, and their descendents, totally dense. If anyone stays in Kulyenchikov for more than 24 hours, he, too, loses all intelligence. A long procession of teachers has attempted to break the chain by enlightening one student, but all have failed because of the curse's time limit...
...residents of Kulyenchikov are not just stupid. They're idiots. The fish vendor sells carnations as haddock and the doctor can't read his own eye chart. The star pupil, whom the newest teacher, Leon Tulchinsky must cure, just learned to sit down a few days ago. Sophia is 18 years old. This would be just another pointless Simon situation commedy--a collection of Amelia Bedelia jokes, as one viewer put it--if it weren't for the necessity of affirmative action...
...fact is that neither Blacks nor the residents of Kulyenchikov caused their own problems. It was society that imposed obstacles to education of American minorities, and society must now make up for lost time. The problem is that Leon and American institutions have been going about affirmative action for the wrong reasons...
...realization of his bonds to all the citizens in addition to his sexual attraction to Sophia finally leads Leon back to Kulyenchikov. Leon grows to love the residents as individuals. As long as he thinks the ignorant are freaks, he cannot begin to help them...
...Sophia falls in love with Leon, thus supplying the connection that removes the 200 year-old curse, and allowing Simon fans to walk out of the theater happy. And the story doesn't finish there. When ignorance has been conquered, a new society evolves in Kulyenchikov with different problems. The innocent fish vendor becomes an insufferable capitalist, and Sophia is no longer willing to accept Leon's opinions at face value. But life is now fuller for everyone in Kulyenchikov. There can be no going back...