20 July 2008 1:06 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news
Universal Pictures releases the first official movie poster from the upcoming film “Flash of Genius” by director Marc Abraham and starring Lauren Graham (The Dream of the Romans), Dermot Mulroney, Greg Kinnear (Ghost Town, Green Zone) and Alan Alda (M*A*S*H). Synopsis: Greg Kinnear stars in director Marc Abraham’s man-against-the-system docudrama Flash of Genius as inventor Robert Kearns, the visionary who developed the modern intermittent windshield wiper. Kearns submitted the invention to each of the big three auto companies, each of which promptly rejected it; the companies then turned around and put the device to use. The enraged inventor spent several decades attempting to collect on his patent, and mounting lawsuits that traveled all the way to the Supreme Court; he eventually [...]
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