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  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 10/03/2008
  • Running Time: 119 mins
  • Director: Marc Abraham
  • Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Alda
  • Producer: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Michael Lieber
  • Writer: Philip Railsback, John Seabrook
  • Distributor: Universal Pictures
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Box Office

  1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 109.0 mil, 200.1 mil
  2. The Proposal, 18.6 mil, 69.2 mil
  3. The Hangover, 17.0 mil, 183.1 mil
  4. Up, 13.1 mil, 250.2 mil
  5. My Sister's Keeper, 12.4 mil, 12.4 mil
  6. Year One, 6.0 mil, 32.5 mil
  7. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, 5.5 mil, 53.5 mil
  8. Star Trek, 3.7 mil, 246.3 mil
  9. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, 3.6 mil, 163.4 mil
  10. Away We Go, 1.7 mil, 4.1 mil
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Flash of Genius

The big-screen version of inventor Robert Kearns’s legal battles with Ford and Chrysler—both of whom nicked his intermittent windshield wiper without giving him credit, much less paying a cent—is about as exciting as Kearns’s Wikipedia entry. Greg Kinnear, usually kinetic, is unusually (and unbearably) dull in producer turned director Marc Abraham’s telling of Kearns’s years-long fight to regain his good name, even as Ford finally offers millions to get him to scram. Is Kearns mad or just angry? Hard to say, as the filmmaker and actor can’t get a handle on a man obsessed with windshield wipers and the attendant credit that’s rightfully his. The movie’s so even-keeled that even the cast—including Lauren Graham as the tolerant wife who suddenly snaps and then just vanishes altogether—seems to be getting sleepy, sleepy, sleepy as it winds its way toward a courtroom showdown that’s more slowdown. You know how it’ll all end—Hollywood doesn’t make movies in which Goliath trounces David, especially when he’s Greg Kinnear—so all you’re left with are windshield wipers, going back and forth . . . and back and forth . . . and back and forth . . . — Robert Wilonsky


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