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Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant--but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His teenaged daughter is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian literature in which he's an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student, the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him.

Production
Grosvenor Park Productions [gb]; Groundswell Productions; QED International; Scheherazade; Sherazade Film Development [bh]; Visitor Pictures;

Cast Names
Tony Amen; Aaron Bernard; John W. Iwanonkiw; William Kania; Benjamin Jeran McGinn; Jackson Nunn; Joe Pawlenko; Jon Yu; Zilda Alvez; Elysia Annacini; Dennis Quaid; Sarah Jessica Parker; Thomas Haden Church; Ellen Page; Ashton Holmes; Christine Lahti; Camille Mana; David Denman; Don Wadsworth; Robert Haley; Patrick Sebes; Kevin James Doyle; Paul Huber; Iva Jean Saraceni; Richard John Walters; Scott A. Martin; Jane Mowder; Adam Kroloff; Patrick Jordan; Amanda Jane Cooper;

Box Office
USD 9,496,882

Release Date
2008-01-20 (Sundance Film Festival)
2008-04-11

Genres
Comedy; Drama; Romance;

Running Time
1 hr. 35 min.

Director
Noam Murro

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