Liberal Arts

September. 14,2012      PG-13
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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.

Josh Radnor as  Jesse Fisher
Elizabeth Olsen as  Zibby
Richard Jenkins as  Professor Peter Hoberg
Allison Janney as  Professor Judith Fairfield
Elizabeth Reaser as  Ana
John Magaro as  Dean
Kate Burton as  Susan
Robert Desiderio as  David
Zac Efron as  Nat
Kristen Bush as  Leslie

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Reviews

WasAnnon
2012/09/14

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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Unlimitedia
2012/09/15

Sick Product of a Sick System

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Moustroll
2012/09/16

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Lollivan
2012/09/17

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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BasicLogic
2012/09/18

This is a very matured film written, directed and acted properly as it should be. Very enjoyable, allowing lot of people who have once attended the college, graduated, melted into the real world of the livelihood. "Any place you cannot leave is a prison", that's a very profound way to look at life at different period. This film provided you with a well thought through scenario what an adult would face and has to deal with. The age of innocence before the age of reality, care-free 4 years of college, then the cruelty of becoming an adult. This is a very good and subtle film that would allow people like us to have the opportunity of a nostalgic retrospection, looking back where you were once there, and to willingly accept where you are now in life. Growing up and growing old is not a poetically beautified process but a pre-destined necessity.

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Kartik Pillai
2012/09/19

There are only a few movies out there which have a good moral to it, well this is a movie which comes under that. The movie is about a adult who thinks that only his college days had something meant to it, not his adulthood life. This movie has everything from romance to comedy to drama. I really liked this movie from all aspects, from the moral to the decisions Jesse makes in this movie. In all, it was a great movie to watch.

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dilipkumarp09
2012/09/20

I could relate to every possible moment in the movie. Great dialogs, great actors. One of those movies you would not mind watching again and again!35 year old guy falls for 19 year old girl, but feels it would be inappropriate to act on it. Cast are fantastic. It's a small movie and not overly eventful, but I really enjoyed it. This is the second of Josh Radnor's films I have seen, I have been really impressed. And also with Elizabeth Olsen as an actress. Worth a watch.Liberal Arts is a resolutely vanilla-flavored concoction but still pleasant, amiable, and a little more thoughtful than your average rom- com.

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johanschutten
2012/09/21

OK, this one is awful. Which is strange, because the acting is very good, the characters well played (although sometimes a bit over the top) and the struggle of a 35 year old falling in love with a cute 19 year old is very real. But something happened in the movie which totally broke it in my opinion. Hence, the spoiler: when 19 y/o Elizabeth invites Jesse to have sex although she's still a virgin, he refuses because of some moral dilemma's. A very real problem if you take the age difference into account. She was still in diapers when he went to high school. And, well, she's still a virgin. Jesse tells her that sex is a big deal and that he cannot do it because he learned in the years after college how special it is. Zibby (Elizabeth) is hurt, cries because of his refusal. I think it was the very best scene in the movie, because it showed an incredible precious en vulnerable moment. I loved it!But then the whole film got totally ruined by the next scene: Jesse meets his old English teacher, forms for some reason suddenly a very good connection with her and finds himself in bed with her after wards. For some reason I cannot begin to fathom he doesn't give a thing about the age difference anymore. Apparently, everything he just told Zibby was a complete and utter lie. His moral dilemma non-existent. His feelings for Zibby totally gone. I just couldn't watch it any further. I don't believe I've ever been any more turned off by a movie than this one. It's horrible. Don't watch it. It's total crap. Don't waste your time. Please.

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