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Young Einstein

Year:

1989

Duration:

91 min

Genres:

Comedy | History

IMDB rate:

Director:

Yahoo Serious

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Details

Country: Australia

Release Date: 1989-08-04

Filming Locations: Australia

Earnings

Opening Weekend: AUD 725,529 (Australia) (17 December 1988)

Gross: $11,536,599 (USA)AUD 13,383,377 (Australia)

Cast

Actor

Character

Lulu Pinkus

Young Einstein

Yahoo Serious

Albert Einstein

Odile Le Clezio

Marie Curie

John Howard

Preston Preston

Peewee Wilson

Mr. Einstein

Su Cruickshank

Mrs. Einstein

Kaarin Fairfax

The Brunette

Michael Lake

Manager

Jonathan Coleman

Wolfgang Bavarian

Johnny McCall

Rudy Bavarian / Tasmanian Devil

Michael Blaxland

Desk Clerk

Ray Fogo

Bright Clerk

Terry Pead

Inventor Couple

Alice Pead

Inventor Couple

Frank McDonald

Nihilist

Tony Harvey

Bursar

Tim Elliott

Lecturer

Ray Winslade

Droving Student

Ian 'Dano' Rogerson

Randy Student

Wendy De Waal

Prudish Student

P.J. Voeten

Chinese Student

Peter Zakrzewski

Kid

Sally Zakrzewski

Kid

Zanzi Mann

Kid

Conky Heygate

Kid

Shannen De Villermont

Kid

Mark Bell

Kid

Warren Coleman

Lunatic Professor

Glenn Butcher

Ernest Rutherford

Steve Abbott

Brian Asprin

Russell Cheek

Nurse

Warwick Irwin

Gate Guard

Keith Heygate

Scientists Guard

Roger Ward

Cat Pie Cook

Michael Matou

Asylum Guard

Elliott Reid

Asylum Guard (as Ted Reid)

Martin Raphael

Crazed Lunatic

Max Meldrum

Mr. Curie

Rose Jackson

Mrs. Curie

Basil Clarke

Charles Darwin

Adam Bowen

Marconi

Esben Storm

Wilbur Wright

Tim McKew

Sigmund Freud

Philippa Baker

Freud's Mother

Geoff Aldridge

Lumiere Brothers

Hugh Wayland

Lumiere Brothers

Ian James Tait

Thomas Edison

Aku Kadogo

African Lady

Margot Ross

Emotional Mother

Madeleine Ross

Baby Scientist

Nick Conroy

Clarke Gable

Michael Shirley

Admiral Shackleton

Ollie Hall

Darwin's Bodyguard

Christian Manon

Darwin's Bodyguard

John Even Hughes

Drunk

Pepper Soudakoff

Darwin's Beagle

Megan Shapcott

Country Girl Fan

Inge Burke

Country Girl Fan

Georgie Parker

Country Girl Fan

David Ngoombujarra

Aboriginal Dancer

Wick Wilson

News Cameraman

David Roach

Country Yokel

Colin Gibson

Country Yokel

Mikey Robins

Hospital Patient (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Constant references apples and props were a joke on the fact Tasmania is Australia's largest producer/supplier of apples, so much so that the official state slogan printed on Tasmanian car license plates is "Tasmania: The Apple Isle".

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Marie's farewell letter is based on a quote by Isaac Newton: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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Goofs

When Albert and Marie arrive at the Science Academy Awards - Einstein say that he's taking the hot air balloon down - and then proceeds to pull the cord to turn on the burners - which should take the balloon up - instead it goes down.

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Albert's "guitar" only has four strings.

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When Marie talks to Albert in the Lunatic Asylum's shower room, "If you won't do anything, who will?" is dubbed over "If you won't do anything, I will."

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Quotes

Albert Einstein: That's it! That's the theory of relativity! Light travels to us from the hands of the clock, to tell us the time. But, if we were to travel away from the clock at the speed of light...

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Albert Einstein: Dad, I want to be a physicist.

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Albert: I'm a Tasmanian

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