Baby Geniuses

Baby Geniuses
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bob Clark
Screenplay by	Bob Clark Greg Michael
Story by	Steven Paul Bob Clark Francisca Matos Robert Grasmere
Produced by	Steven Paul
Starring	Kathleen Turner Christopher Lloyd Kim Cattrall Peter MacNicol Ruby Dee
Cinematography	Stephen M. Katz
Edited by	Stan Cole
Music by	Paul Zaza
Production companies	TriStar Pictures Crystal Sky Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing[1]
Release date	March 12, 1999 (1999-03-12)
Running time	95 minutes[2][3]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12 million[1]
Box office	$36.5 million[1]

Baby Geniuses is a 1999 American family comedy film directed by Bob Clark and written by Clark and Greg Michael, from a story by Clark, Steven Paul, Francisca Matos, and Robert Grasmere. It stars 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 was almost universally panned by critics, who lambasted its acting, humor, special effects, writing, and directing, but it grossed $36.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $12 million. In 2004, it was followed by a sequel, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, which was a box office bomb, and received even worse critical reviews, receiving a nomination for Worst Picture at the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards.