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HairBrained
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When 14-year old genius/outcast Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at Ivy League wannabe Whittman College. It's hate at first sight. At Whittman, Eli meets 41- year-old freshman Leo Searly. Leo, a gambler whose world has imploded, has dropped out of life to enroll in college. This odd duo becomes unlikely friends.
When 14-year old genius/outcast Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at Ivy League wannabe Whittman College. It's hate at first sight. At Whittman, Eli meets 41- year-old freshman Leo Searly. Leo, a gambler whose world has imploded, has dropped out of life to enroll in college. This odd duo becomes unlikely friends.
Actors:
Austin Pendleton,
Elisabeth Hower,
Julia Garner,
Curtis Gillen,
Michael Oberholtzer,
Robin de Jesus,
Alex Wolff
Austin Pendleton
27 March 1940, Warren, Ohio, USA
Elisabeth Hower
Julia Garner
1994, New York City, New York, USA
Curtis Gillen
Michael Oberholtzer
Robin de Jesus
21 August 1984, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Alex Wolff
1 November 1997, New York City, New York, USA
Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Billy Kent
Billy Kent
Country:
United States
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February 27, 2014
Hairbrained has a lot of good stuff. There is nothing egregiously wrong with the film. It just needs more of that good stuff.
March 01, 2014
Think a poor man's cross of Napoleon Dynamite (2004) and Old School (2003) where a coming-of-age tale merges with a midlife crisis.
February 27, 2014
Unfortunately, the movie lacks strong enough players to fill in subtext to Mr. Kent's formulaic setups, and the story flounders once Ms. Posey is out of the picture.
February 27, 2014
Often caught trying too hard, forcing the feature into positions that fail to extract the simple joys of the premise and its idiosyncratic lead character.
February 27, 2014
Aside from some nice autumnal shots of Ivy League college campuses, there's nothing in HairBrained to sustain much interest.
October 31, 2014
HairBrained is enjoyable, lightweight entertainment and, for a story about a genius, it requires very little thinking.
February 28, 2014
A campus comedy that tries to transcend its many formulaic elements with an insufficient dose of absurdism.
February 28, 2014
Poorly thought-out serio-comedy
February 27, 2014
Early potential fizzles away too quickly in this underachieving buddy comedy, which just barely skids along on the charm of its co-stars.
February 27, 2014
HairBrained is a rather dumb comedy about a sharply intelligent mind, failing due to flat characters, cliched plotting and minimal laughs.
February 28, 2014
"HairBrained" is painfully contrived and self-consciously quirky from the word go.
February 25, 2014
Billy Kent's charming HairBrained comes from a long legacy of collegiate comedies but still finds its own identity.