On his first day at Whittman College, a small, East Coast liberal arts school, Eli's sloppy mother can't be bothered to escort him personally. Instead, she drops him off at the bus, explaining: "I wanted to take you, but I'm just. So. Tired." She's played by Parker Posey, star of director/co-writer Billy Kent's 2006 comedy "The Oh in Ohio," and Posey gets about three lines of dialogue in a wasted opportunity to inject some real comic talent. (The formidable Fred Melamed similarly is underused in a minor role as a bookie.)
Once he arrives on campus, plot devices dictate that Eli must connect with his exact opposite: the overgrown slacker across the hall at his dorm.
Uma vez que ele chega no campus, os dispositivos de enredo ditam que Eli deve se conectar com o seu exato oposto: o preguiçoso coberto pelo corredor em seu dormitório.
Assim que chega no campus, artifícios do enredo ditam que Eli precisa conectar-se com seu exato oposto: o preguiçoso grandalhão do outro lado do hall no seu dormitório.
He's 41-year-old fellow freshman Leo Searly, who's going back to school to earn a degree after throwing his life away gambling. Brendan Fraser plays him with a party-boy glibness that's vaguely reminiscent of Val Kilmer in "Real Genius," another movie from which "HairBrained" borrows. (Kent co-wrote the script with Sarah Bird and Adam Wierzbianski.)
When we first see Leo, he's parked in his Mercedes Benz convertible, pounding a beer and pondering which sports electives to take. When Leo and Eli introduce themselves to each other, it's with the respective, self-assigned tags of "late bloomer" and "child prodigy."
Quando começamos a ver Leo no seu conversível Mercedes Benz estacionado, pensando em cerveja e ponderação quais esportes escolher. Quando Leo e Eli se apresentam um ao outro, é com as respectivas etiquetas, auto-atribuídas de "início tardio" e "criança prodígio".
Na primeira vez que vemos Leo, ele está na sua Mercedes Benz conversível estacionada, bebendo cerveja e se perguntando quais eletivas esportivas ele deveria participar. Quando Leo e Eli se conhecem, eles se apresentam com os rótulos auto-designados de "alguém que se desenvolveu muito tarde" e "criança prodígio," respectivamente.