A waste of time think Hugh grant is getting a little old for Rom com s or past it ... watched it because was a fan of Hugh grant like four weddings and about a boy and Bridget Jones diary etc .. but this one don't really work not as bad did you hear about the Morgans that was awful .. but the acting is quite poor .. which turns you off a bit

Hugh Grant plays Keith Michaels, a raffish LA screenwriter who won an Oscar for his screenplay some years ago but his career has struggled since. Whatever he writes is not what the Hollywood producers are looking for, they want to see movies with a kick ass action girl.Estranged from his family, with rejected screenplays and short of cash his agent gets him a job teaching screen writing at a small university just off New York.As soon as he arrives he has a sexual relationship with one of his class student Karen (Bella Heathcote.) At a party he offends stuck up Professor Mary Weldon (Allison Janney) by insulting Jane Austen. He also has no interest in teaching his class or reading their fledgling scripts.However he soon finds inspired to teach by the work his class has produced and especially by one of his nerdy male student who produces a promising screenplay. He also falls for a mature student Holly (Marisa Tomei.) Keith who is arrogant even aloof at first decides it is important that he sticks with his class although Professor Weldon wants to see the back of him.There is nothing much original about the film, it has an easy charm, an amiable time waster and a good cast rounded off by JK Simmons as the department head.

We know Marc Lawrence right...the deft hand in people relationships,the comic turn inside the serious, opening out a personality in a painless way...So...why did this one tank...it was/is warm, it was personal, I even liked the music...is Clyde Lawrence his brother... We've lost Nora Ephron now so we need to encourage the people people amongst us who happen to make films..good ones... It takes a lively interest in people to depict them sensitively, there are a number of cliché accompaniments in this film, but at worse they are endearing. The Grant character, no matter how he changes is becomes in itself a cliché, but i don't mind his conversational two step, i like his dry humour, and this film gives him the chance to evolve from the sardonic place that he is always in...in a manner that is accompanied in tone by the other cast members. They get it, they get it all...So we the audience get it, join in, walk out of the theatre feeling enriched by having shared something...What else is there.

Well this is what happens when the basic movie going public is between 18 and 25 and the stars or this film are 50 plus. When I was young a really long time ago, most movie bills featured two films: the "hit"and the B picture. Those days are gone as no one could sit in their seat for two films anymore. For this film, the B picture, Grant is an aging A list writer who can't even get on a list as he hasn't written anything good for years. His agent gets him a gig as a teacher in a university in Binghamton, New York. So we have a set up for a very upset fish out of water plot. Grant is perfect as the Hollywood sophisticate sentenced to working with what he sees as bumpkins. And thus our story. Grant slowly realizes that teaching might not be the waste of time he thought and then there is a possible love connection with the only adult member of his class, Marisa Tomei. I am always complain to my wife that they don't make pictures with heart anymore. And this film is a good example. I loved it and my wife who at first resisted a viewing became a fan. That's why it's still on the DVR. And yes there is nothing "new" here but we do have an story made engaging by a wonderful cast including Allison Janney, J. K. Simmons, and Chris Elliott. Janey is an overeducated and unappreciated Jane Austen scholar; Simmons as the chair of the department and sentimental family man; and Elliot as a Shakespeare instructor who has struck out in love and life but is an excellent next door neighbor and friend. The film is also helped by a wonderful younger supporting cast playing Grant's script writing pupils. So either rent this or record it and sit yourself down with a bag of popcorn and date (wife) and cheer a film with heart. You might decide it is an A picture.