![]() ![]() HANSEN: The role of Robert Kearns is played by Greg Kinnear, an Oscar nominee for the film "As Good As It Gets." Many of the parts he's played over the years have been comic ones. GREG KINNEAR: (As Robert Kearns) To you maybe. DERMOT MULRONEY: (As Gil Previck) I mean, come on Bob, it's just a windshield wiper. "Flash of Genius" is a true story based on a New Yorker magazine article. Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper and spent 12 years suing the big Detroit automakers for stealing his idea. If the name Robert Kearns is not familiar to you, I guarantee that the next time you use your windshield wipers you will remember his name. He ends up in a Maryland psychiatric facility instead. Disheveled and depressed, he's on a bus, convinced that the vice president has called him to come to Washington. When we first meet Robert Kearns, the main character in the new movie "Flash of Genius," he's a broken man.
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