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* InformedAbility: The eponymous members. They are gathered together, explicitly because they have abnormally high [=IQs=]. However, through the movie's dialogue they are twice shown unable to answer very simple (and well known) riddles. And all their arguments are extremely shallow. They're supposed to be geniuses, and they're in a hostage situation. Why can't they form complex arguments or express themselves above a junior high-school reading level?
* StrawNihilist: Armand, rants that humans have no purpose and God doesn't exist, until the dying sage and the genius garbage man both discuss their confrontations with death, [[spoiler:In the end, he really just had an identity crisis]].

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* InformedAbility: The eponymous members. They are gathered together, together explicitly because they have abnormally high [=IQs=]. However, through the movie's dialogue dialogue, they are twice shown unable to answer very simple (and well known) riddles. And riddles, and all their arguments are extremely shallow. They're supposed to be geniuses, and they're in a hostage situation. Why can't they form complex arguments or express themselves above a junior high-school reading level?
* StrawNihilist: Armand, Armand rants that humans have no purpose and God doesn't exist, until the dying sage and the genius garbage man both discuss their confrontations with death, death. [[spoiler:In the end, he really just had an identity crisis]].crisis.]]



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A 2006 American Drama Thriller written and directed by Creator/TimChey that follows seven geniuses (Creator/CarolAbney, Creator/PaulaJaiParker, Creator/MattMedrano, Creator/JacobBonnema, Creator/PhillipMoon, Creator/TriciaHelfer, and Creator/StephenBaldwin).

The movie also stars Creator/JackScalia, Creator/TomSizemore, Creator/HuntleyRitter, Creator/ArchBonnema, Creator/DimitriDiatchenko, and Creator/AlasdairLincoln.

It was released on October 27, 2006.

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* ImprobablyHighIQ: Seven people with [=IQs=] over 200 are gathered to solve the world's problems in one night.
* InformedAbility: The eponymous members. They are gathered together, explicitly because they have abnormally high [=IQs=]. However, through the movie's dialogue they are twice shown unable to answer very simple (and well known) riddles. And all their arguments are extremely shallow. They're supposed to be geniuses, and they're in a hostage situation. Why can't they form complex arguments or express themselves above a junior high-school reading level?
* StrawNihilist: Armand, rants that humans have no purpose and God doesn't exist, until the dying sage and the genius garbage man both discuss their confrontations with death, [[spoiler:In the end, he really just had an identity crisis]].
* {{Tagline}}: "They have one night to solve the world's problems".

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