Summary
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, Rovi
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Widowers
-- United States
-- Drama.
College teachers -- United States -- Drama. Father and child -- United States -- Drama. Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- United States -- Drama. Physician and patient -- United States -- Drama. Comedy films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Publisher | Burbank, Calif. :Miramax Films :2008 Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, |
| Edition | Widescreen. |
| Contributors |
Johnson, Bridget
(Motion picture producer) Poirier, Mark Jude. Murro, Noam. Quaid, Dennis. Parker, Sarah Jessica. Church, Thomas Haden. Page, Elliot, 1987- Holmes, Ashton. Groundswell Productions. Sherezade Films. Visitor Pictures. Corduroy Films. Table Top Films. QED International. Miramax Films. Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) |
| Participants/Performers |
Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes. |
| Other Contributors |
Director of photography, Toby Irwin ; editors, Robert Frazen, Yana Gorskaya ; music, Nuno Bettencourt ; costume designer, Amy Westcott ; production designer, Patti Podesta. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; (Restricted; under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for language, brief teen drug and alcohol use, and for some sexuality. |
| Language |
English In English with optional subtitles in French or Spanish; with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH). |
| Notes |
Title from container. Special features: deleted scenes; The smartest people - interviews with filmmakers and cast; not so smart - bloopers/outtakes; feature commentary by filmmaker Noam Murro and writer Mark Jude Poirier. |
| System Details |
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN | 0788885820 9780788885822 |
| Other | Classic View |