Young Einstein (1988) on Netflix
Albert Einstein, son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, splits the beer atom to put bubbles back into beer. He travels to Sydney to patent the formula and meets the scientist Marie Curie.
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- Rotten Tomatoes36%
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Plot summary
In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein lives on his family's apple farm in Tasmania but cares more about physics. His father shows him a shed where his grandfather brewed beer and says the family has long wanted bubbles in beer. After heavy drinking, Albert works out a formula for splitting the beer atom and splits one with a hammer and a chisel. His father sends him to the mainland to patent the formula. The train to Sydney carries Marie Curie, a Polish-French scientist, and Preston Preston, who manages the patent office.
Cast
- Su Cruickshankas Mrs. Einstein
- Adam Bowenas Marconi
- Russell Cheekas Nurse
- Terry Peadas Inventor Couple
- Alice Peadas Inventor Couple
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Young Einstein (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Serious first became interested in Albert Einstein when he was traveling down the Amazon River and saw a local wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a physicist on it: Einstein sticking out his tongue, taken by photographer Arthur Sasse.
- The film was created on an extremely low budget, so low that Serious sold his car to generate funds, cameras were borrowed, and his mother cooked for the crew.
- Serious was able to pre-sell the film to an American company, Film Accord, for $2 million, which enabled him to raise the film's original budget of $2.2 million.
- Serious refused to consider making a sequel to the film, stating in interviews that he was opposed to sequels in general.
