Overview
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.
I really loved this movie. In a lot of ways it reminded me of High Fidelity in that it addressed the difficulties that a man can having trying to move into adulthood. And as the movie progressed we came to see that nobody ever really feels like an adult – instead we must look at our aging faces in the mirror and the date on our birth certificate and infer that we are adults. I thought the movie addressed these themes in a subtle and very sweet manor. Elizabeth Olsen really steals the show as a “rough draft” of a teen that at first appears to be more adult than the adults. It was just a lovely movie to watch and I was sad when it ended.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Liberal Arts
Movie title: Liberal Arts
Movie description: 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.
Date published: 2021-02-15
Director(s): Josh Radnor
Actor(s): Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney, Elizabeth Reaser, John Magaro, Kate Burton, Robert Desiderio, Zac Efron, Kristen Bush, Ali Ahn, Ned Daunis, Gregg Edelman, Michael Weston, Chelsea Chrostowski, Richard Doone, Caroline Lindy, Travis Alan McAfee, Angelic Zambrana
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
My Review
I really loved this movie. In a lot of ways it reminded me of High Fidelity in that it addressed the difficulties that a man can having trying to move into adulthood. And as the movie progressed we came to see that nobody ever really feels like an adult – instead we must look at our aging faces in the mirror and the date on our birth certificate and infer that we are adults. I thought the movie addressed these themes in a subtle and very sweet manor. Elizabeth Olsen really steals the show as a “rough draft” of a teen that at first appears to be more adult than the adults. It was just a lovely movie to watch and I was sad when it ended.
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My Review - 8.5/10
8.5/10