Film201297 min

Liberal Arts

Name: Liberal Arts
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2012
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney, Elizabeth Reaser

Taste attributes: comedydramaromanceteenmusic/dancefastwholesomelightrealisticsimplelinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringall consuming questcoming of agecomplex relationshiplove conquers allunlikely connections

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Boxlist takeExpect a simple, moving romantic comedy, glossy rather than gritty. Best if you like stories that hit hard.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: wholesome · Weight: light · Realism: true to life · Story: very simple · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score

Quality rating

6.4 /10

TMDB · 412 votes

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Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Originality: Balanced originality, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby – a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse thought he had buried forever.

Synopsis: TMDB