YMMV / Flash of Genius

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The film is a Docudrama about Robert Kearns, his invention of the intermittent windshield wiper, and his lawsuit against the Ford Motor Company. Problem was, the subject matter was very mundane and the real-life event isn't well-known to most people. Unsurprisingly, it failed to attract most moviegoers and didn't even make a quarter of its budget back.