Real Genius

With Val Kilmer's death on Tuesday, I want to give some Gen-X love to Real Genius, Kilmer's second starring role (one year before Top Gun) and a mid-'80s classic. Some commentary on the film, including by the inspiration for the main female character. Kilmer plays an irreverent-and-rebellious student at a thinly veiled Cal Tech. It is loaded with great one-liners; my favorite: "I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, 'I drank what?'"

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