Flash of Genius

Director: Marc Abraham

Genre: Drama, Adaptation

Release Date: October 03, 2008 (U.S.)

Duration: 119 minutes

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Jake Abel, Daniel Roebuck

Overview: Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' long battle with the U.S. the automobile industry, a story of a man whose struggle to receive recognition for their ingenuity coming at a very high price. However, this particular engineer refused to be silenced, and he took the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. The Kearns were a typical family of Detroit 1960, trying to live their version of the American dream. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis and, by his mid-thirties, had six children who came to them with a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. When Bob invents a mechanism that could be used by all cars in the world, the Kearns think they have beaten gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants who embraced Bob's creation unceremoniously rejected the man who invented it. Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what has been done to his family and his future. He becomes a man obsessed with justice and the conviction that his life work - or indeed anyone else's work - be recognized by those who would benefit. And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise their dignity, this everyday David will try the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees.