Movies:
Young Einstein
DVD Release
- Release Date: 2005
- Languages: English & Français (Dubbed in Quebec)
- Subtitles: English, Français & Español
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- Theatrical trailer
- Rating:
- Genre: Comedy
- Movie Type: Slapstick, Farce
- Themes: Class Differences, Ladder to the Top
- Director: Yahoo Serious
- Main Cast: Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard, Pee Wee Wilson, Su Cruickshank
- Release Year: 1988
- Country: AU
- Run Time: 91 minutes
- MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
The life of legendary scientist Albert Einstein is re-imagined as a slapstick farce in this comic fantasy. Changing Einstein's country of origin from Germany to Tasmania, the film shows the scientist's eventful youth as he creates rock & roll and discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom. Director and star Yahoo Serious loads the film with slapstick comedy, absurd sight gags, and even sneaks in a romantic subplot in which Einstein courts Marie Curie. The film was a huge hit in its native Australia but a major box-office disappointment in the United States, where audiences largely ignored the display of nonstop silliness. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie GuideReview
Australian comic writer-director-actor Yahoo Serious, the stage name for Greg Pead, scored a huge hit Down Under with this 1988 farce about a Tasmanian genius who not only discovers the theory of relativity but also invents the electric guitar, rock and roll, the surfboard, and the method of splitting the beer atom. Full of slapstick scenes, sight gags, and unabashed silliness, this Outback comedy was a disappointment outside Australia, perhaps because too much of its humor is Aussie-based. There's even a subplot involving an imagined romance between Einstein and Marie Curie. As a satirical gonzo-biography of a famous person, Young Einstein is in a class by itself; the concept is outrageous, and the comedy strictly a matter of taste. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie GuideCast
- Yahoo Serious - Albert Einstein
- Odile Le Clezio - Marie Curie
- John Howard - Preston Preston
- Pee Wee Wilson - Mr. Einstein
- Su Cruickshank - Mrs. Einstein
Basil Clarke - Charles Darwin; Ebsen Storm - Wilbur Wright; Lulu Pinkus - Blonde; Kaarin Fairfax - Brunette; Jonathan Coleman - Wolfgang Bavarian; Roger Ward - Cat Pie Cook; Max Meldrum - Mr. Curie; Rose Jackson - Mrs. Curie; Adam Bowen - Guglielmo Marconi; Tim McKew - Sigmund Freud; Philippa Baker - Freud's Mother; Geoff Aldridge - Lumiere Brother; Hugh Wayland - Lumiere Brother; Ian James Tait - Thomas Edison; Michael Blaxland - Desk Clerk; Tim Elliot - Lecturer; Ray Fogo - Bright Clerk; Ollie Hall - Darwin's Bodyguard; Tony Harvey - Bursar; Michael Lake - Lonely Street Hotel Manager; Christian Manon - Darwin's Bodyguard; Johnny McCall - Rudy Bavarian; Alice Pead - Inventor Couple; Terry Pead - Inventor Couple; Colin Gibson - Country Yokel; Aku Kadogo - African Lady; David Roach - Country Yokel; Steve Abbott - Brian Asprin; Mark Bell - Kid; Inge Burke - Country Girl Fan; Glenn Butcher - Ernest Rutherford; Russell Cheek - Nurse; Warren Coleman - Lunatic Professor; Nick Conroy - Clark Gable; Shannen de Villermont - Kid; Wendy de Waal - Prudish Student; Film Crew - Dangerous Lunatics; Albert Heygate - Dog; Conky Heygate - Kid; Keith Heygate - Scientist's Guard; John Even Hughes - Drunk; Warwick Irwin - Gate Guard; Zanzi Mann - Kid; Michael Matou - Asylum Guard; Georgie Parker - Country Girl Fan; Martin Raphael - Crazed Lunatic; Ted Reid - Asylum Guard; Rhonvic Brolga Dancers - Polka Dancer; Ian "Danno" Rogerson - Randy Student; Madeleine Ross - Baby Scientist; Margot Ross - Emotional Mother; Megan Shapcott - Country Girl Fan; Michael Shirley - Admiral Shackleton; Pepper Soudakoff - Darwin's Beagle; Sylvester's Sextet - Bavarian Band; P.J. Voeten - Chinese Student; Wick Wilson - News Cameraman; Ray Winslade - Droving Student; Wombat - Dog; Sally Zakrzewski - Kid; Michael Lynch; David Ngoombujarra - Aborignial Dancer; Frank McDonald - Nihilist
