There are other great performances here too, like Mitch Pileggi as the bad guy from any corporation in America, Tim Kelleher as his greasier side-kick and Dermot Mulroney as a slightly smarmy friend of Kearnes'. After all, it's hard to imagine anyone making an engineer or professor seem interesting but in this outing Kinnear certainly accomplishes that.Īdding her own note of quiet grace and perfect screen presence, Lauren Graham as Phyllis Kearns gives her character both charm and great heart, not to mention that she looks better in a plain white nightgown that just about anyone I've seen. This is another instance of his having added immeasurably to what may have otherwise been a more uninteresting character. He just feels right in so many roles it's hard to imagine anyone else having done them. Perfectly companionable for just about everyone. Kinnear as sort of the cocker spaniel of American actors. It was great to see Greg Kinnear in another flawless performance here as Dr. Reviewed by bjones 10 / 10 Great film - sad story And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, this everyday David will try the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees.

He becomes a man obsessed with justice and the conviction that his life's work-or for that matter, anyone's work-be acknowledged by those who stood to benefit.

Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what was done to his family and their future. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants who embraced Bob's creation unceremoniously shunned the man who invented it. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns think they have struck gold. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis and, by their mid-thirties, had six kids who brought them a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their version of the American Dream. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' long battle with the U.S.

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