A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from him and his friends.A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from him and his friends.A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from him and his friends.
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- TriviaThe lines spoken by Walter Matthau as Einstein, "I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right," "Time is an illusion," and "God does not play dice," are all actual Albert Einstein quotations.
- GoofsEd checks the wrong answers for several questions in the I.Q. test.
- Quotes
Albert Einstein: Are you thinking what I am thinking?
Ed Walters: Well what would be the odds of that happening?
- Crazy creditsSeveral characters' names are given incorrectly in the credits; Stephen Fry's character is spelled "James Morland" without the E, Lou Jacobi's character Kurt Gödel is spelled with no umlaut over the O, and Tony Shalhoub's character is titled "Bob Watters," not Bob Rosetti as given throughout the film.
- SoundtracksCOCKTAILS FOR TWO
by Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnston
Performed by Spike Jones
Courtesy of RCA Records label of BMG Music
Featured review
g + S + b (gb / A) - S + b = he
Yeah, that's the formula for a romcom (cis, straight) -- girl is with a schmuck; boy enters the equation; boy and girl get together but have an argument which divides them; the schmuck gets dumped; the boy comes back; Happy Ending
But it's just a plot formula, not a chemistry formula. Why? Because there's no chemistry in this movie, just cold fusion. Ryan and Robbins don't click in this flick. Of course Ryan is the queen of romcom, but I don't remember seeing Robbins in any other romcom. It's just not his thing.
But Robbins is great in this movie, as are the rest of the cast. Matthau is perfect as Einstein -- funny, adorable, quick witted. There are awkward moments though, like when he was on the boat making the couple get together -- it was like he was some kind of voyeur or something. Weird.
But the writing was great, plenty of innuendo and double entendras. There were several situations that were contrived and unrealistic, a prerequisite for any great romcom.
Unfortunately, there was bias in the composition of the cast with only one black person in the entire movie, a minor role as a server in a restaurant at the beginning of the movie, while all of the other characters in the movie (mainly intellectual types) were white.
Otherwise, it's well worth the time.
Triggers: Racial bias in composition of the cast; textual content >600 wpm (presentation visuals during the IQ test)
rating 6/10 (submitted 20200603 7:35 EDT, revised 20200606 5:00 EDT)
But it's just a plot formula, not a chemistry formula. Why? Because there's no chemistry in this movie, just cold fusion. Ryan and Robbins don't click in this flick. Of course Ryan is the queen of romcom, but I don't remember seeing Robbins in any other romcom. It's just not his thing.
But Robbins is great in this movie, as are the rest of the cast. Matthau is perfect as Einstein -- funny, adorable, quick witted. There are awkward moments though, like when he was on the boat making the couple get together -- it was like he was some kind of voyeur or something. Weird.
But the writing was great, plenty of innuendo and double entendras. There were several situations that were contrived and unrealistic, a prerequisite for any great romcom.
Unfortunately, there was bias in the composition of the cast with only one black person in the entire movie, a minor role as a server in a restaurant at the beginning of the movie, while all of the other characters in the movie (mainly intellectual types) were white.
Otherwise, it's well worth the time.
Triggers: Racial bias in composition of the cast; textual content >600 wpm (presentation visuals during the IQ test)
rating 6/10 (submitted 20200603 7:35 EDT, revised 20200606 5:00 EDT)
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Box office
- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,381,221
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,131,201
- Dec 26, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $26,381,221
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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