I.Q.

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I.Q.

"With Einstein as Cupid, what could possibly go wrong?"

1994

1h 40m

6.0(493 votes)

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Overview

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

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Cast & Crew

34 members

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Tim Robbins

Ed Walters

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Meg Ryan

Catherine Boyd

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Walter Matthau

Albert Einstein

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Lou Jacobi

Kurt Godel

Directing

Gene Saks

Boris Podolsky

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Joseph Maher

Nathan Liebknecht

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Stephen Fry

James Morland

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Tony Shalhoub

Bob Watters

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Frank Whaley

Frank

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Charles Durning

Louis Bamberger

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Keene Curtis

Eisenhower

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Alice Playten

Gretchen

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Danny Zorn

Dennis

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Helen Hanft

Rose

Production

Roger Berlind

Duncan

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Arthur Berwick

Academic

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Timothy Jerome

Academic

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John McDonough

Academic

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Lewis J. Stadlen

Moderator

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Jeff Brooks

Reporter

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Rex Robbins

Suit

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Richard Woods

Suit

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Daniel von Bargen

Secret Service Agent

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Jack Koenig

Reporter #1

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Sol Frieder

Professor Loewenstein

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Michelle Naimo Bird

Nurse

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Theodore Conant

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Scotty Bloch

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Chet Carlin

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Alice Drummond

Dinner Guest

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Leo Leyden

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Le Clanché du Rand

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Brook Berlind

Dinner Guest

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Greg Germann

Bill Riley (uncredited)

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