Raising Genius


Raising Genius is a 2004 American comedy film written by Linda Voorhees and co-directed by her with Bess Wiley. The film stars Justin Long, Wendie Malick, Ed Begley, Jr., Stephen Root, Danica McKellar, Mark DeCarlo, Tippi Hedren, Shirley Jones, Clint Howard, and Sam Huntington. It was a selection of the Paris Film Festival in Paris, France, in 2005, and also played at the Waterfront Film Festival in South Haven, Michigan in 2005.

Plot

Nancy Nestor is the perfect wife and mother now at her wits' end when her teenage genius son Hal locks himself in the bathroom for months to work on a mathematical equation which involves studying of Lacy Baldwin, a cheerleader next door, as she bounces up and down on a trampoline. Nancy's husband Dwight is too wrapped up in his own petty concerns to help her. When a burglary brings the police to inspect the crime scene, they find Hal locked in the bathroom and suspect he is being held against his will and call Social Services.

Cast