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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, Alcohol Consumption Movie Release: 2008 DVD Release: 08/12/2008 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 35 mins Studio: Miramax Total Copies: 25 Genres: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Family Drama See Also: Smart People [Blu-ray]

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

Dennis Quaid - Lawrence Wetherhold
Sarah Jessica Parker - Janet Hartigan
Thomas Haden Church - Chuck Wetherhold
Ellen Page - Vanessa Wetherhold
Ashton Holmes - James Wetherhold