A professor's midlife crisis goes spectacularly, humiliatingly wrong — and you're invited to the wreckage.
Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to restore some sense of vitality to his lonely existence he embarks on a series of impulsive romantic exploits resulting in a cavalcade of disaster both personally and professionally. These disasters change and educate Pack and serve eventually as a meditation on the meaning and power of desire, loss, and love.
Acting
Julian Sands commits to pathetic with unsettling dedication.
Writing
Novelistic voiceover that thinks it's deeper than it is.
Director
Chris Iovenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Chris Iovenko never made another feature; this remains his sole cinematic statement on male despair.
Part of a forgotten wave of early-2000s indie films where middle-aged British actors played failed American intellectuals.
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