When 14-year-old genius/outcast Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at Ivy League wannabe Whittman College. It's hate at first sight. At Whittman, Eli meets 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly. Leo, a gambler whose world has imploded, has dropped out of life to enroll in college. This odd duo becomes unlikely friends.... (Full plot summary below)
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When 14-year-old genius/outcast Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at Ivy League wannabe Whittman College. It's hate at first sight. At Whittman, Eli meets 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly. Leo, a gambler whose world has imploded, has dropped out of life to enroll in college. This odd duo becomes unlikely friends.
Leave your thoughts about Hairbrained.
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzToo bad that the film's funniest personalities, Parker Posey and Fred Melamed, have the smallest parts. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfOften caught trying too hard, forcing the feature into positions that fail to extract the simple joys of the premise and its idiosyncratic lead character. |
| Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyBilly Kent's charming HairBrained comes from a long legacy of collegiate comedies but still finds its own identity. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanHairbrained has a lot of good stuff. There is nothing egregiously wrong with the film. It just needs more of that good stuff. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Lisa NystromHairBrained is enjoyable, lightweight entertainment and, for a story about a genius, it requires very little thinking. |
| Mark Leeper's ReviewsMark R. LeeperHAIRBRAINED feels like a throwback to college comedies of 1980s cable TV. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanEarly potential fizzles away too quickly in this underachieving buddy comedy, which just barely skids along on the charm of its co-stars. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin Putman"HairBrained" is stuck in one of those strained, superficial movie worlds that resemble Earth, but bear few commonalities with real life and human behavior. The experience of watching it is frustrating, then obnoxious in its too-cute adorkableness. |
| New York TimesMiriam BaleUnfortunately, the movie lacks strong enough players to fill in subtext to Mr. Kent’s formulaic setups, and the story flounders once Ms. Posey is out of the picture. |
| We Got This CoveredJordan AdlerHairBrained is a rather dumb comedy about a sharply intelligent mind, failing due to flat characters, cliched plotting and minimal laughs. |
