MOVIE · 1992
Surviving Desire
ComedyDramaRomance53 min
At a small American college, a professor who lives mostly in his head drifts into a messy attraction that starts to disrupt the order of his daily life. What begins as flirtation turns into a tangle of crossed signals, jealousy, and guilty curiosity, pulling students, colleagues, and friends into the fallout. As conversations sharpen and loyalties shift, the film follows how desire collides with self-image and the rules people pretend they can keep. Martin Donovan is at the center of a story where wit and discomfort sit side by side, and Julie Kessler helps tip a private obsession into something harder to contain.
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