Rating: 8 out of 10 Starring: Greg Kinnear, Laura Graham, Alan Alda
Genre: Mature audience drama
Kinnear plays Dr. Robert Kearns, a college engineering professor who invented the windshield wiper which enables the driver to adjust the interval between swipes. Claiming that Ford stole his invention, Kearns spent 12 years attempting to get the company to acknowledge him, despite several settlement offers by Ford. His obsession with the battle and the toll it took on him and his family is the focus of the movie.
This is an interesting and absorbing story. It is well told and Kinnear does an outstanding job. Here again I find myself at odds with the critics, who regarded the movie as bland and predictable Of course it was predictable since it was based on a true story .
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