Starring – Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham
Director – Marc Abraham
Domestic Gross – $4,442,377
Running Time – 119 minutes
What do you get when you try to tell the story of the man that invented the intermittent windshield wiper? A boring albeit endearing story. Kinnear plays engineering professor Robert Kearns in Detroit circa 1965. He realizes on his was home from church with the family one Sunday that when it’s only raining a little the wipers cause more of a distraction than the rain and wouldn’t it work better if you could slow them down. He adopts this as a pet project and develops the intermittent wiper. Unfortunately, when he demos this for Ford they go and steal the invention. He spends the next 25 years battling to get credit for his invention. The film was about 30 minutes too long, but other than that it was well-acted (which is tough to say about a Greg Kinnear movie) and an interesting true story. Lauren Graham was charming as usual. If you’re a bit of an engineering geek check it out. Otherwise, it may be a bit too long for you to enjoy and there are plenty of other David vs. Goliath tales.
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