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# Real Genius

1985Rated PG106 minComedyRomanceScience Fiction

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When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.

**Is it right for your kids?** A rating tells you what a board thought. It does not tell you whether your eight year old will be bored, or whether there is one scene you will be explaining in the car afterward.

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## Before you press play

**Length:** 106 min - long for under-sevens

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