Infinity

Matthew Broderick plays the young physicist Richard Feynman; he also directs and wrote the script with his mother, based on Feynman’s memoirs. Mainly serves to highlight success of Kinsey, which conveys biopic points with much more verve and concision. This scientist’s story is slack and uninflected, with many scenes that go nowhere in particular. The film focuses on Feynman’s early marriage to a tubercular woman played by Patricia Arquette, and when he goes to work at Los Alamos on Manhattan Project, she checks into Albuquerque hospital, where she eventually dies on V-E Day. He takes her home to Queens and then returns for first A-bomb blast, but nothing in the film really connects with anything else. Overall, an honorable but unrealized effort. (1996, dvd, n.) *5+*