Hair Brained is a 2013 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Billy Kent, and starring Brendan Fraser and Alex Wolff.
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
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.
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." Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com awarded the film 1/4 stars calling it a "painfully contrived and self-consciously quirky from the word go."
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