I.Q. is a 1994 American romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, and Walter Matthau. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The film centers on a mechanic and a Princeton doctoral candidate who fall in love, thanks to the candidate's uncle, Albert Einstein. An amiable garage mechanic, Ed Walters , meets Catherine Boyd , a beautiful Princeton University mathematics doctoral candidate, as she comes into the garage, accompanied by her stiff and fussy English fiancé, experimental psychology professor James Moreland . There is an... immediate connection, but she refuses to acknowledge it. Finding a watch she left at the garage, Ed travels to her address and finds himself face to face with Albert Einstein , who is Catherine's uncle. Albert, portrayed as a fun-loving genius who along with his mischievous friends, fellow scientists Nathan Liebknecht , Kurt Gödel , and Boris Podolsky , sees Ed as someone who would be better suited for Catherine. The four of them attempt to help Ed look and sound more like a scientist (i.e.
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| Release date: | December 25, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Fred Schepisi |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Carol Baum |
| Editor: | Jill Bilcock |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Screenplay by: | Andy Breckman |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |