It wasn’t bad, mainly because I always liked James Stewart, although to be honest he looks a bit old for this role. He was 57 and his character had a 18-y-o daughter and a 8-y-o son, plus hearing his wife talking it seems like they married young, like right out of university or something... anyway, it was nice, a simple little movie, but nothing special, nothing I’d like to watch again.
Stewart plays Robert Leaf who is a professor, a poet, a lover of the arts, any arts, and a hater of the science, any science. He is very absent-minded, which I supposed is to add to his artistic-poetic-aura, and one day is world is put upside down when he discovers, not only that his son has no artistic talent whatsoever, but even that he is a maths genius. He’s only eight, but all of a sudden he becomes a prodigy. When his teacher tells them he wants to keep it a secret, he doesn’t like it at all, they even take him to a doctor, who is very surprised when Erasmus tells him that he doesn’t care about maths at all, he’s only interested in Brigitte Bardot :-p , but his ability comes out anyway when Erasmus points out, to a bank director, that their count was wrong. Now everyone’s interested in him. Leaf fights against it, while his daughter tries to take advantage of the situation. Leaf rejects her idea of selling t-shirts, but he knows nothing about her friends taking advantage of his ability to make winning bets on horses. Until they are found out. He’s angry and asks the girl and her friend about it. Erasmus shows him how he does it (they give him all the statistics and he chooses one).
The guy says he only wants to earn enough money to marry her, Leaf asks ‘a few millions?’ and the girl ‘Oh one is enough for me’ :lol:
It’s still not clear to me if it’s ok to do it or not, is it legal or isn’t it? Why was there an officer to talk to him at the university?
Erasmus always asks for money every time, and he spends it all on stamps: he keeps writing to Brigitte Bardot... he writes to her every night :-p
Leaf resigned, and doesn’t even know that they have no more money, even promises his vain daughter to buy her a new dress (did they try to explain to her that there’s no money?).
Erasmus gives him the money he earned to buy the dress, and then father and son go to buy the dress without the girl... when was that ever a good idea?
He meets another professor or something who lost his job, and together they plan something to ‘promote the arts’ using of course Erasmus to make money... betting on horses... they start with ten dollars and soon have thousands..
Suddenly Erasmus receives a letter from France! It’s in French so he asks his dad to read it to him. She writes that she loved all his letters and asks him to go to her to meet. He wants to go, but his father thinks it’s too far away. The professor/doctor or whatever gets angry when Erasmus refuses to give him another horse until he can go see BB, but then he apologises and tells them that they can take the money from their ‘foundation’ to take the boy to Paris; after all if he stops they have no way to go on... so Leaf takes the boy to Paris. They meet her, and it turns out that she knows his poems... she gives them chocolate, they take a picture, (Leaf is astonished by such technology as a polaroid...) and she gives him a puppy, and kisses him on both cheeks, then they go back.
A lieutenant comes to tell Leaf that the man he thought was their accountant is actually been arrested. Leaf pretends to know nothing with the doctor, and Erasmus says fromage because he keeps thinking of BB saying cheese when they took the picture, and the doctor bets all the money they had, and then Erasmus says he didn’t choose any horse this time (guess he suddenly ‘woke up’ from his daydreams), but what do you know, somehow that horse wins anyway. The doctor takes all the money alone, planning to go away with a girl, and he’s about to be arrested but Leaf knew about him and involved the university in the foundation, so they take the money instead.
The end... just like that.
ITA Erasmo il lentigginoso
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