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Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

Cast

Tim Robbins

as Ed Walters

Meg Ryan

as Catherine Boyd

Walter Matthau

as Albert Einstein

Lou Jacobi

as Kurt Gödel

Gene Saks

as Boris Podolsky

Joseph Maher

as Nathan Liebknecht

Stephen Fry

as James Moreland

Tony Shalhoub

as Bob Rosetti

Frank Whaley

as Frank

Charles Durning

as Louis Bamberger

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