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This is entirely appropriate, for the movie's subject is superbrainy young people, non-nerd division. They have been recruited to a double-dome school at the M.I.T.-Caltech level by slick Professor Jerome Hathaway (William Atherton), who has an explain-it-all science show on TV and a Government contract to build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo...
...Genie” tells the story of O’Tooley, a freshman nerd in love with the affluent but bipolar Sweetie Connors. Distraught at his inability to woo her, he and his roommate Brock the Jock head to a bar, where in an inebriated stupor they meet Gia, a kind and soulful genie bent on helping O’Tooley win the girl of his dreams...
...cruel but sympathetic. Dr. Young loves the deep throat but it exhausts him; an old Jewish guy is one of Linda's most ardent patients, pleading, "Money is no object. Look -I got Blue Cross!" Once Linda locates her tingler, she need only find Mr. Right, a nerd named Wilbur (William Love). The plot dilemma: Linda needs a man with a nine-inch cock, and Wilbur frets that "I'm just four inches away from happiness." Turns out his cock is ... 13 inches long. Ladies and gentlemen: comedy...
...cast of mostly newcomers has remained largely the same, but director James Lapine helped get them in touch with their inner nerd. He told them to bring in pictures of themselves as kids, and he put them up in the rehearsal hall. "I could see who these people were at 11, 10 and 12," says Lapine. "It was so revealing. In an ineffable way, it helped the process." Finn once described the show as a "Survivor for nerds," but he means that in only the nicest way. "I know these people," he says. "I am one of these people...
...both over my head and fascinating—that made my parents satisfied with their investment. And, as much as I’d like to think so, I don’t think my friends are very unique. Look around, just about everyone from the physics nerd to the football player is brilliant and interesting. Seriously, it’s freaky...