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    The Mosquito Coast (1986)

    A brilliant but unstable inventor and his family create what they hope will be their Utopia in...

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    Flubber (1997)

    Enemies try to steal an absent-minded inventor's (Robin Williams) flying rubber creation and his...

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    The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    A visitor (David Bowie) from an arid planet creates a global corporation to make billions to get...

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    The Thin Man (1934)

    Sophisticated Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) solve a murder mystery with their...

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    Flash of Genius (2008)

    Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) fights the auto industry, claiming that the intermittent windshield...

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    The Great Moment (1944)

    After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired...

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    The Big Noise

    An inventor hires two private detectives (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) to guard his newfangled bomb.

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    The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)

    Moe, Larry and Curly Joe (The Three Stooges) foil martians out to steal a professor's (Emil Sitka)...

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    Under the Hula Moon (1995)

    The story of Buzzard and Betty Wall, two dreamers who live in a desert trailer and envision a better...

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    Unstrung Heroes (1995)

    A 12-year-old striving to cope with the impending death of his mother (Andie MacDowell) must leave...

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    Blankman (1994)

    An inventive oddball takes matters into his own hands when crime overruns the Illinois city he calls...

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    Death Machine

    A 21st-century genius seeks revenge on the woman who fired him, with a killing machine that senses...

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    Dream a Little Dream 2 (1994)

    Two pairs of magic sunglasses cause problems for two pals (Corey Feldman, Corey Haim) from Cleveland...

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    Mastermind (1975)

    A Charlie Chan-like inspector (Zero Mostel) outwits spies to protect a robotic invention.

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    Return of the Fly

    An inventor's son (Brett Halsey) becomes part fly like his father after messing with a molecular...

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    Safe Passage (1994)

    An estranged couple (Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard) await news of their Marine son, the possible...

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    Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)

    Lightning turns a student's (Kurt Russell) experiment into a liquid which, in spray form, makes...

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    The Rocketeer (1991)

    A test pilot (Bill Campbell) turns superhero in 1938 Hollywood with a Nazi-coveted rocket backpack...

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    Tintin et le lac aux requins

    This animated feature stars the French cartoon hero "Tintin," a cheerful can-do young man who...

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    Chairman of the Board (1998)

    A wealthy tycoon names an orange-haired surfer/inventor (Carrot Top) as chairman of his Fortune 500...

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    La Zizanie

    An inventor and a small-time industrialist, Guillaume (Louis De Funes) has come up with something...

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    Ecoute Voir...

    In this detective thriller, Alphand (Catherine Deneuve) is a private detective called upon to rescue...

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    Wild Wild West (1999)

    Secret agent James T. West (Will Smith) and his partner (Kevin Kline) fight evil inventor Dr....

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    Son of Flubber (1963)

    The absent-minded professor (Fred MacMurray) invents ``dry rain'' and ``flubbergas,'' which the...

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    Congorama

    While searching for his biological parents, an engineer (Olivier Gourmet) meets a man (Paul...

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    Tucker: the Man and His Dream (1988)

    Flamboyant inventor Preston Tucker's ill-fated battle to produce a faster and safer automobile for...

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    Young Einstein (1989)

    Albert Einstein (Yahoo Serious), raised in Tasmania, splits the atom while brewing beer, then...

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    Toomorrow

    Dying aliens kidnap the group Toomorrow who's "vibrations" are needed for their race to survive.

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    Brenda Starr (1992)

    The comic-strip reporter (Brooke Shields) gets the story, aided by her cartoonist (Tony Peck) and a...

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    A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

    An inventor (Woody Allen), his wife (Mary Steenburgen) and two other couples spend an enchanted...