Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas

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Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas

R

2006

1h 15m

Comedy

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Bickford Schmeckler (Patrick Fugit) has a lot of "cool ideas" about things like the meaning of life and the unified field theory. He keeps them all in a giant notebook that he guards with his life. So when a sorority girl (Olivia Wilde) somehow manages to steal the book, he scours the campus to find it before all his ideas are lost forever. Meanwhile, everyone who reads the book experiences a radical change in consciousness, blown away by Bickford's amazing revelations about life.

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Marrit Ingman

Austin Chronicle

03/24/2006

Bickford is an assured first feature for former Beacon Pictures exec Lew, with a winning cast and an infectious spirit.

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David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

10/01/2007

4/5

It's the sort of small-scale comedy that invites multiple viewings.

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Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

10/01/2007

What should be the American Pie of college genius comedies suffers from a lack of imagination and an absence of impudence...

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Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

05/24/2007

Director Scott Lew is not without his own cool ideas (having Reno 911's Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon play campus cops is genius), but his focus is all over the place

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Eric D. Snider

EricDSnider.com

04/17/2006

C+

The film's early momentum wears off, and we realize the movie's not as amusing or entertaining as it wants to be.

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Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

03/19/2006

4.5/5

Packing quite a bit of wit, wisdom, craziness, and creativity into its slick-looking and efficient frame, Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas is a bizarrely charming little diversion.

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12/03/2019

Awesome experience. Let's the viewer question what their own meaning of morality and reality are. A funny journey into the mind of someone in an early-life crisis.

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09/15/2018

Lot's of odd characters in this..starts of kinda grand but then loses it's momentum..

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joseph s

01/18/2015

I like high school / college centered movies but this one didn't donit for me. boring story with a mopey protagonist. It gets an extra half a point because of Olivia Wilde

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01/19/2014

Entertaining for what it is.

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11/09/2013

I wish there were more movies like this.

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08/31/2013

It isn't complete trash but it has no idea what the story is that it's telling.

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Bickford Schmeckler (Patrick Fugit) has a lot of "cool ideas" about things like the meaning of life and the unified field theory. He keeps them all in a giant notebook that he guards with his life. So when a sorority girl (Olivia Wilde) somehow manages to steal the book, he scours the campus to find it before all his ideas are lost forever. Meanwhile, everyone who reads the book experiences a radical change in consciousness, blown away by Bickford's amazing revelations about life.

Director: Scott Lew
Producer: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Andrew Miano, Jeremiah Samuels, Lloyd Segan
Screenwriter: Scott Lew
Production Co: Depth of Field
Rating: R (Drug Use|Sexual References|Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 14, 2011
Runtime: 1h 15m