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The film is included on the film critic Roger Ebert's "Most Hated" list.
Dom DeLuise's last theatrically-released film. He made several later films that were never publicly released.
The triplets who portrayed babies Sly and Wit were six years old.
Dr. Elena Kinder's surname is derived from the German word for "children."
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By what name was Baby Geniuses (1999) officially released in Japan in Japanese?
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Baby Geniuses
1999 film by Bob Clark
Baby Geniuses is a 1999 American familycomedy film directed by Bob Clark and written by Clark and Greg Michael, from a story by Clark, Steven Paul, Francisca Matos, and Robert Grasmere. It stars Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, and Ruby Dee.
The rulle has the distinction of being the first full-length feature to use computer-generated imagery for the synthesis of human visual speech. 2D warping techniques were used to digitally animate the ingång viseme shapes of the babies which were originally shot with their mouths closed. The viseme shapes were sampled from syllables uttered by the babies on the set.
Baby Geniuses was almost universally panned by critics, who lambasted its acting, humor, special effects, writing, and directing, but it grossed $36.5 million worldwide against a production ekonomisk plan of $12 million. In 2004, it was followed by a sequel, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, which was a box offi
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About 25 years ago I met a fine artist, a painter, on a train trip to visit a mutual friend. We discussed our respective professions/enthusiasms, and she told me that as a rule she hated movies about painters because they were almost uniformly false—to the point of being corny—in their depiction of the act of painting. One exception, she said, was the then-recent “Life Lessons,” the Martin-Scorsese-directed episode of the 1989 “New York Stories,” in which Nick Nolte played an abstract painter. That movie got it, she said. I was glad to hear it, as I enjoyed the movie too, but I also said that as someone who had little clue about how painting was actually accomplished, I could enjoy Vincente Minnelli’s “Lust For Life” regardless.
Writers have less of a hard time with movies about writers, because the act of writing is something that’s somewhat pointless to depict visually, so you kind of can’t go wrong. But there’s also a kind of inherent futility in using a visual medium to convey