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.
ComedyRomanceScience Fictiongeniuslaseru.s. air forceboy geniusegoteen comedycomputer crackerwoman director
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Character
Classical in form, resolved, comic and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
20 profiled raters. Loved most by The Sinceres; disliked most by The Formalists.
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Cast
- Val KilmerChris Knight
- Gabriel JarretMitch Taylor
- Michelle MeyrinkJordan
- William AthertonProfessor Hathaway
- Robert PrescottKent
- Louis GiambalvoMajor Carnagle
- Jon GriesLazlo Hollyfeld
- Ed LauterCIA Man Decker
- Stacy PeraltaShuttle Pilot
- Daniel AdesLaser Ray Victim
Crew
- Martha CoolidgeDirector
- Neal IsraelScreenplay
- Pat ProftScreenplay
- PJ TorokveiScreenplay
- Vilmos ZsigmondDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Richard ChewEditor
- Brian GrazerProducer
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