MOVIE · 2012
Liberal Arts
ComedyDramaRomance97 min
Newly single and stuck in a job he hates, 35-year-old Jesse Fisher heads back to his alma mater for the retirement dinner of a favorite professor. Josh Radnor's Jesse, a bookish Manhattan admissions officer who feels his life has stalled, quickly slips into the rhythms of campus again — and into an unexpected bond with Zibby, a 19-year-old student played by Elizabeth Olsen. Richard Jenkins is the professor who draws him back, while the visit stirs up old ideas about adulthood, romance, and the version of himself Jesse thought he'd left behind.
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