Q&A: Marc Abraham

October 14, 2008 With his quirky period piece "Flash of Genius" -- about the indomitable spirit of a man (Dennis Kearns) who invented intermittent windshield wipers and fought for years to get credit for it -- the Universal-based producer proves he also has directing chops and is comfortable with more intimate material. Hollywood Reporter: "Flash" has a strong underdog current -- one man against the auto corporations -- which given everything that's going on in the economy seems pretty tapped into the zeitgeist. You're working at Enron, and you have this nice pension and then suddenly you don't.

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