Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins light up the screen like Boyd's Comet itself in this delightful romantic Comedy.
Set in the 1950's it tells the story of Ed, an auto mechanic and Catherine a beautiful but academically minded mathematician who fall in love at first sight, but due to her obsession with marrying a genius, she resists all his overtures and her own feelings, until he pretends to be the genius she is looking for.
He is aided in his deception by Catherine's uncle who just happens to be Albert Einstein played brilliantly by Walter Matthau in an Oscar worthy performance.
Einstein knows enough about the universe to know a Big Bang when he sees one, and does everything he can to bring the two love birds together including giving Ed one of his long forgotten disproven theories to pass off as his own.
However when the theory hits the headlines it becomes a national sensation that even has the White House sitting up and taking notice, it's clear that the deception has blown up in their faces.
Wonderful support is given by Stephen Fry as Catherine's stuck up genius of a fiancé and he portrays the loathsome love rival to a tee.
Add to this Gene Saks, Lou Jacobi and Joseph Maher as Einsteins fellow physicists Boris Podolsky, Kurt Godel and Nathan Liebknecht respectively and who act like three impish and mischievous grade school children rather than three world renowned scientists, it really ramps up the level of fun.
A great little family movie and a lovely romantic comedy that is far better than some of the critics will have you believe.
Set in the 1950's it tells the story of Ed, an auto mechanic and Catherine a beautiful but academically minded mathematician who fall in love at first sight, but due to her obsession with marrying a genius, she resists all his overtures and her own feelings, until he pretends to be the genius she is looking for.
He is aided in his deception by Catherine's uncle who just happens to be Albert Einstein played brilliantly by Walter Matthau in an Oscar worthy performance.
Einstein knows enough about the universe to know a Big Bang when he sees one, and does everything he can to bring the two love birds together including giving Ed one of his long forgotten disproven theories to pass off as his own.
However when the theory hits the headlines it becomes a national sensation that even has the White House sitting up and taking notice, it's clear that the deception has blown up in their faces.
Wonderful support is given by Stephen Fry as Catherine's stuck up genius of a fiancé and he portrays the loathsome love rival to a tee.
Add to this Gene Saks, Lou Jacobi and Joseph Maher as Einsteins fellow physicists Boris Podolsky, Kurt Godel and Nathan Liebknecht respectively and who act like three impish and mischievous grade school children rather than three world renowned scientists, it really ramps up the level of fun.
A great little family movie and a lovely romantic comedy that is far better than some of the critics will have you believe.