Hairbrained

2013

ComedyFantasy

A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.

"This is Eli Pettifog. He's got a score to settle, and it's going to get hairy."

Rating

5.4
69 votes

Popularity

1.2059

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

Love Lane Pictures

Runtime

97 min.

Status

Released

Release: 11/25/2013

Credits

Hairbrained

Billy KentDirector

Hairbrained

Brendan FraserLeo Searly

Hairbrained

Alex WolffEli Pettifog

Hairbrained

Julia GarnerShauna

Hairbrained

Parker PoseySheila Pettifog

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Reviews

Kamurai

8/13/2020

5 / 10

Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can't sincerely recommend. I like Brendan Fraser well enough and he nailed it in this support role, but Alex Wolff pretty much carries the movie, playing off of everyone else wonderfully. It is rare to have a collegiate coming of age story, but they managed to cover the idiosyncrasies of a young genius in a new world quite well. What really breaks me from the movie is the slew of crimes being committed against Eli as he is 13-14 years old. The other thing is that trivia isn't the most exciting thing, as exampled by the movie. They could have easily done an applied science competition that would have been a bit more compelling. While I don't regret watching this subtle, slice of life story, there just isn't much to say about it: just very little payoff.

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