When college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) develops an intermittent windshield wiper, he believes he, his wife (Lauren Graham) and their children will be set for life. Though the invention is a big hit with automakers in 1960s Detroit, Kearns finds himself forced out of the picture. Determined to collect the recognition and financial reward due him, he wages an arduous legal battle with the auto industry.
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While "Flash of Genius" seems like another story of little-guy perseverance, an inspiring movie about an average joe sticking it to the big, bad, mulitmillion-dollar man, you may end up wondering how the heck this TV-movie escaped from the TNT channel.
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