Real Genius

An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the plan.

Real Genius is a 1985 romance sci-fi movie directed by Martha Coolidge, starring Val Kilmer, Daniel Ades, Andres Aybar. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.9/10 from 41,422 votes and runs 1h 48m.