According to the producer (who introduced this morning’s screening) if Frank Capra were still alive he might have made a film like Flash of Genius (tiff). I suppose that might be true. It was the kind of standard “man stands up for what’s right” film that I associate with Capra, and not something I’d ever see in a theatre in standard release, but for 9AM on day six, it wasn’t a bad little break. Greg Kinnear and a based-on-reality script managed to keep it north of formulaic, but just barely.

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[tags]tiff, tiff08, flash of genius[/tags]