Who stars in the movie Flash of Genius, and who was the inspiration for the story?
Kearns was a humble engineer who came up with an idea for a better windshield wiper. Basically, Ford stole it from him. He fought a very long hard battle for the rights to his patents and he won. It’s a story of an ordinary person fighting back against a corporate giant. Greg Kinnear is a very engaging and charming man and I’m looking forward to seeing him in this role. We all wish that we had the strength and fortitude to stand up for ourselves like Mr. Kearns did. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/10/02/automobiles/533-flash-of-genius-1.jpg Plot summary for Flash of Genius (2008) More at IMDb Pro ยป advertisement Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’ (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle t
