Jonathan Gries

Real Genius -- Three brainy college students plot an elaborate revenge when they learn they've been inadvertently working on a secret weapon for the military.

When a group of crazy college geniuses put their heads together, almost anything can happen. Hold on for a freewheeling, uproarious look at just how much mischief a bunch of high-IQers can concoct. Chris (Val Kilmer) is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is the 16-year-old whiz kid, and Lazlo (Jonathan Gries), America's number one brain, literally lives in a world of his own ... Chris' closet. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project, they still find time to turn the dorm into an ice-skating rink, dismantle a nerd's car and reassemble it in his room, and throw a beach party in the auditorium complete with a lagoon and bikini-clad beauties. When the geniuses discover that their unscrupulous mentor Professor Hathaway (William Atherton) has had them working on a secret weapon for the military, they plot an elaborate revenge. Their plan culminates in an incredible scheme that outsmarts the military and convinces the professor that it doesn't pay to fool with a Real Genius! !

In his film debut, director John Dahl weaves a quirky tale of love, murder and deception. Seedy private detective Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer) is hired by Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) to help her fake her own death in a clever scheme to escape from her mob pursuers. It seems she’s double-crossed them by stealing money she had been sent to pick up, and they are now intent on killing her. Through a series of plot-twists, double-crosses and surprises, Fay and Jack race each other to escape the mobsters, and to get the money before the other does.

One family's satellite television dish accidentally becomes a garbage disposal unit for a distant alien civilization in this sci-fi screamer. After the Puttermans install the new system, it begins receiving powerful transmissions from deep space. Eventually, a hideous alien life form is also beamed down into their household. One of the Puttermans has an idea about what's happening to them, but since he's just a kid, no one's paying attention.