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Released
1994 · FILM

I.Q.

A lovelorn young man enlists the help of a mischievous Albert Einstein, who pretends to be a brilliant physicist in order to capture the heart of Einstein’s niece—risking scandal and personal ruin in their audacious romance.

“With Einstein as Cupid, what could possibly go wrong?”

Directed by
Fred Schepisi
Written by
Andy Breckman, Michael Leeson
Runtime
100 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

In a fictional scenario, Albert Einstein assists a young man who is in love with Einstein's niece by helping him gain her attention. To do so, Einstein temporarily pretends to be a great physicist.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jill BilcockShot by Ian BakerScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Stuart Wurtzel

Box Office

1994 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$26.4M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$26.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.7M — 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.7M — 25% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,409 theaters

Also known as

  • I. Q. - Liebe ist relativde
  • I.Q. - Liebe ist relativde
  • L'Amour en équationfr
  • Genio per amoreit

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