Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 09/09/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS/DDS2.0
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Legendary scientist
Albert Einstein (played here by
Walter Matthau) takes a break from theoretical physics to try to set up his intellectual niece with a handsome auto mechanic in this romantic comedy. The movie's central conceit is that
Einstein's brilliance extends to matters of the heart, allowing him to immediately sense that Ed Walters (
Tim Robbins), a bright, lower-class mechanic obsessed with
Popular Science Magazine, would be perfect for his niece Catherine (
Meg Ryan). Unfortunately, Catherine is already engaged to a stiff Princeton man. In order to defeat Catherine's resistance, Uncle Albert decides to help Ed pretend to be a revolutionary scientist, a charade that inevitably leads to much farcical confusion.
Einstein's scientist pals are portrayed as a Greek chorus of Catskills-style kibitzers, featuring such notable perfomers as
Lou Jacobi as
Kurt Godel and director
Gene Saks as
Boris Podolsky.
~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
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