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iest comedies from`* th _%;e 1`^960s, about a tone-deaf, col^or-[#=%b\l-%+ind boy genius with one intere!!st: Br;ig,`itte Bardot. Ja ? m
es $ Stewart plays professor!? R ?!ob+ ert -[+Leaf, a t:ypical colle!g?#e pr%ofessor ](when speaking of c.oll=;/ege :profes.sors typical mea\ns_) liberal, b\:ut t
his was 40 years ago and labe; l)s chan_?: ge). Leaf teaches po^* )etry, lives?*/ i-:n +a houseboat i=* n] San  Francisco, vocally oppos`^es nuclear power $ a/]nd progr[ess in ge_;*neral. ]He has ]`[@ an original way to make the family sti-ck toget_her  @- family concerts. Hi*, s daugh#)#+ter calls him;[ =/ squa@?re.+ Le%/a+f's 8-year old son Erasm  us is] p=
layed by _ /Bill +]y M!\umy ?(Sam my the Way Out S#-eal, ] Lost In Spac*e, [Ble#_%^ss The ?+Beasts (*Ch$i#ldren, Thr?-ee Wishes).;+, Leaf hopes)?( to.#* fi$
nd (%artistic genius of some s;or/(t in his o+nly son, and nu.rture,s him @ ^in*^]  mus
`ic, p!^a/i-nti$!ng, lite*?rature\(\,=% etc. But L\eaf (is disap[
pointed, to pu.
,*t it mildly, when _^)/it 
turns ou)`$*t Erasmu_-s h)-as ?a*,`$ gift for math, #can (out-+?(think;%?-; the colle [ges:! newes/t com#-p ) uter, i!nst $antly compute horse-race wi\[:nners. I don't` want to_ give away .t\oo mu ch of t

he plot,[ but +Eras)-mus had been writing !_to ]Ba -\r+.dot ?_ regularly;, and after the family- c?o(%mes;;\ to depen[ d on his ab@ility,)@ his love-sickness @_ ca:use!,,s a mental `=block. Gly `_nis J/ o#;hns (Fathe^r&,:!#].?39s Delica?te C /(ondit*.ion- , The @,)Cabi/+.net of Caligari, M:]ary Pop`p:-=`ins) p\lays L-#/eaf's )wi@fe. Ed Wy-]!,nn (Requi\$#;em For A Heavyweigh !t, Mar* y Poppin[ s) is a neig.;hb=?or / $/\capta+in / #[n; !?%arrator.- Othe@=#:r cast )^i nclude Fabian, Cindy Carol, John W]^=i\lliam -#s, ] `Jesse White, Jack %Krus!
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a $ nd J#\%am:=es B;,rolin in an early bit part.. Brigi-tte :Bardot appears _/at t$/he [ end.