When a burned-out, brilliant professor – one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks – takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.
“Woody Allen’s writing is as sharp as his leading character’s morality is fuzzy. And if the director is revisiting territory from Crimes and Misdemeanors in spots, he’s working some decently amusing variations here.” -Bob Mondello, NPR
“Allen has crafted a suspenseful mind-teaser that might feel too much like an intellectual exercise if Phoenix and Stone didn’t infuse it with such raw humanity.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
