Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 08/12/2008
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
Commercial director
Noam Murro makes the leap to feature films with this
comedy drama concerning an aging professor-turned-bitter eccentric due to the death of his longtime wife. Ever since his wife passed away,
Lawrence Wetherhold (
Dennis Quaid) has become overly acerbic and self-absorbed. He's alienated his son (
Ashton Holmes) and transformed his daughter (
Ellen Page) into a friendless overachiever. Now, at the precise moment
Lawrence thought he had finally figured it all out, his life comes crashing down all around him as he falls for a former student (
Sarah Jessica Parker) and his shiftless adopted brother (
Thomas Haden Church) comes knocking on the door in search of a place to stay. Though
Lawrence always relied on his intelligence to get him out of life's little jams in the past, it's going to take quite a bit more than intellectual thinking to move past this sticky stage in his suddenly chaotic life.
David Denman and
Christine Lahti co-star in this
romantic comedy drama, which serves as the screenwriting debut of
Goats and
Modern Ranch Living author
Mark Jude Poirier.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Brisk New Adult Romantic Comedy.
Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Thomas Haden Church star in this all-too-predictable comedy-drama. Quaid plays a widowed college professor, who ends up falling a beautiful former student-turned-physician (Parker), who nurses him following an injury. However, his newly-found romance is being hindered when his adopted freeloading brother (Church) moves in with him and his sharp-tongued overachieving daughter. This should teach family members not to interfere in your own personal love life. Also starring Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes, Danny Denman, Christine Lahti, and Camille Mana.
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