Hair Brained
2013 film
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Hair Brained is a 2013 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Billy Kent, and starring Brendan Fraser and Alex Wolff.[1][2]
Sarah Bird
Billy Kent
Billy Kent
Avram Ludwig
| Hair Brained | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Billy Kent |
| Screenplay by | Adam Wierzbianski |
| Story by | Adam Wierzbianski Sarah Bird Billy Kent |
| Produced by | Sarah Bird Billy Kent Avram Ludwig |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Charlie Libin |
| Edited by | Paul Bertino |
| Music by | The Newton Brothers |
Production company | Love Lane Pictures |
| Distributed by | Vertical Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
After being rejected from Harvard University, 14-year old genius and outcast Eli Pettifog (Alex Wolff) finds himself at Whittman College, an Ivy League wannabe. Eli, the hair brained meets 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly (Brendan Fraser), a gambler whose world has imploded and has dropped out of life to enroll in college. The odd duo becomes unlikely friends in this comedic coming-of-age film.
Cast
- Brendan Fraser as Leo Searly
- Alex Wolff as Eli Pettifog
- Parker Posey as Sheila Pettifog
- Julia Garner as Shauna Holder
- Michael Oberholtzer as Laird
- Greta Lee as Gertrude Lee
- Teddy Bergman as Alan Warren
- Robin de Jesús as Romeo Torres
- Elisabeth Hower as Eve Hansen
- Austin Pendleton as Dapper Man
- Toby Huss as Whittman Moderator / Brad the Announcer
- Josefina Scaglione as Camilla
- Kimiko Glenn as Perky Girl
- Fred Melamed as Benny Greenberg
- Lizzy DeClement as Sophie Searly
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 22% of 18 critics' reviews are positive.[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 48 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[4]
On Screen Anarchy, Andrew Mack wrote that "not all of the humor hit its mark (...) For the most part, it is a pleasant film to watch and is charming in its own right."[5] Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com awarded the film 1/4 stars calling it a "painfully contrived and self-consciously quirky from the word go."[6]
