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Synopsis: David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature, a student of American hedonism, and an amateur musician and photographer. When he finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old Cuban, he sets out to seduce her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning. She presses him to sort out what he wants from her, and a relationship develops. They talk of traveling. He confides in his friend, George, a poet long-married, who advises David to grow up and grow old. She invites him to meet her family. His own son, from a long-ended marriage, confronts him. Is the elegy for lost relationships, lost possibilities, beauty and time passing, or failure of nerve?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Isabel Coixet
Production: MGM
  3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
R
Year:
2008
112 min
$3,456,676
Website
403 Views


And I adore theater.

I review plays for a magazine.

Would you like to go with me

sometime to the theater?

- Yes.

- Sorry.

Go to the theater?

- Why don't you take her to the prom?

- I get it.

This girl is...

She's a throw-back to a completely

different time. She has to be wooed.

I thought we were talking about sex.

You know for a Pulitzer Prize winning poet,

sometimes you display a

remarkable lack of imagination.

That's why they gave me the f***ing prize.

Don't tell me you've never been

through the process of talking the talk.

That's why I have a family for

Christ's sake. I talk to them.

Maybe you should get married again.

George!

Talk the talk with your wife if you

feel like it, go to the museums,

look at all the Goyas that you want,

but keep the sex part just for sex.

Alright.

Do you really still talk

to your wife, George?

No. One all.

I'm not hitting that.

Sneaking off for a smoke?

- You know you shouldn't smoke.

- You tell me that

in this bed, every 3 weeks.

- I'm under a lot of pressure.

- I like to be consistent.

So do I.

You've been trying to get me

to quit smoking for 20 years.

Since the first day of your class.

Oh my God, your class made me smoke.

I'm under a lot of stress.

- Oh, how was Chicago?

- Cleveland.

Chicago was last week.

Atlanta's next week.

You sound like Cary Grant

in "North by Northwest".

Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha!

Ha ha, laugh, just try being a

woman running your own business.

I thought you liked

being your own boss.

I do. Oh, I do, I do.

Thank god for these little interludes.

That's all I can say.

Aren't you going to get that?

There's only one person in the world that

would call me at 2 o'clock in the morning

Leave a message.

Did you get my email?

I really need to talk to you.

Ah, I should have known better than

to think you'd be home at this hour.

Or maybe you are home and listening

to this, all snug and smug.

Well, you ran out on him.

I ran out on a marriage that

I got myself into out of youth

and fear a million years ago.

Sometimes you pay for liberation.

That's the price he pays

for being turned into

the heroic...

defender of the abandoned mother.

I mean if any one of us

could make it over the wall.

He sat on my case,

isn't there some statute of limitations?

I've tried.

Really, I've tried.

When he was 12 or 13 one time,

he came to spend the summer

with me, I took him to the Mets.

He spent the next five innings

throwing up in the men's room,

he's been throwing up ever since,

that phone call was him throwing up.

You know what's wild?

He's successful.

Kenny Kepesh,

A well respected doctor,

my son, the doctor.

He speaks passable French,

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Nicholas Meyer

Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American writer and director, known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After. Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. He appeared as himself during the 2017 On Cinema spinoff series The Trial, during which he testified about Star Trek and San Francisco. more…

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