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Baby Geniuses movie storyline. Dr. Elena Kinder and Dr. Heap work for BABYCO, the world’s leading manufacturer in baby products. What the public doesn’t know, however, is that Dr. Kinder and Dr. Heap are secretly working on cracking the code to “baby talk” which is actually a highly sophisticated language which allows babies to communicate the knowledge of the secrets of the universe with which they are born. Problems arise when Sly, the smartest of the babies, escapes from the lab and unites the babies of the outside world to help free the babies trapped in the lab. Kinder and Heap must find Sly before it is too late.
Baby Geniuses is a 1999 American family comedy film directed by Bob Clark and written by Clark and Greg Michael based on a story by Clark, Steven Paul, Francisca Matos, and Robert Grasmere, and starring Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, and Ruby Dee.
The film has the distinction of being the first full-length feature to use computer-generated imagery for the synthesis of human visual speech. 2D warping techniques were used to digitally animate the mouth viseme shapes of the babies which were originally shot with their mouths closed. The viseme shapes were sampled from syllables uttered by the babies on the set.
Baby Geniuses (1999)
Directed by: Bob Clark
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Ruby Dee, Kyle Howard, Kaye Ballard, Leo Fitzgerald, Myles Fitzgerald, Gabrielle Robbins
Screenplay by: Bob Clark, Greg Michael
Production Design by: Francis J. Pezza
Cinematography by: Stephen M. Katz
Film Editing by: Stan Cole
Costume Design by: Betty Pecha Madden
Set Decoration by: Josh Newman, Robert L. Zilliox
Art Direction by: Michael Roth
Music by: Paul Zaza
MPAA Rating: PG for some rude behavior and dialogue.
Distributed by: TriStar Pictures
Release Date: March 12, 1999
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