Real Genius (1985) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Chris is a brilliant Pacific Tech student and former National Physics Club legend who initially appears to be a carefree slacker. He mentors Mitch by explaining the burdens of genius, helps create the...
Mitch is a gifted high school student recruited by Professor Hathaway for the Crossbow project. Rooming with Chris, he becomes his friend and collaborator, endures Kent's humiliation, helps build the...
Jordan is a hyperactive, insomniac Pacific Tech student who befriends Mitch and becomes the object of his romantic feelings. She helps the group expose Kent by planting a transmitter in his braces, en...
Kent is Hathaway's graduate student and an eager toady who reports Mitch for attending a pool party and secretly records Mitch's call to humiliate him. He sabotages the students' laser, steals equipme...
Lazlo is a former Pacific Tech student whose genius collapsed after he discovered that his creations were being used to kill. Living secretly in the university tunnels, he advises Chris and Mitch, hel...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Hollyfeld informs Chris and Mitch that their laser could become a weapon and later helps reprogram it.
Mitch befriends Jordan and gradually develops romantic feelings for her.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Jordan participates in the operation that enables the group to locate and disrupt the laser test that Hollyfeld is trying to stop.
Kent's tracking system and mirror are taken as part of the equipment used to weaponize Chris's laser, while Hollyfeld works to reprogram it.
Jordan helps implant a radio transmitter in Kent's braces, allowing Mitch to deceive Kent into believing he is speaking to Jesus.
Chris tells Mitch that Lazlo suffered a nervous breakdown after discovering that his creations were being used to kill.
Kent receives the job originally promised to Chris, and Kent later sabotages the laser created by Chris and Mitch.
Kent reports Mitch for attending a pool party instead of working on the laser.
Jordan participates with Chris in the group's effort to expose and stop the weaponization plan.
Mitch is roomed with Chris at Pacific Tech, and they share a dorm room.
A group of gifted students turns scientific ingenuity against the secret weapon project exploiting their work.
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Real Genius (1985) · 6.7/10 · comedy, romance, science-fiction
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