This movie was just released this weekend, but sparsely because of some industry funny business. It has gotten a good reception on IMDb (6.1 from over 100 respondents) and a metascore of 50, both good for a romantic comedy.
The film stars Hugh Grant, Marissa Tomei, and J.K. Simmons. Grant plays an Oscar-winning screenwriter who has accepted a visiting lecturer position at a small college. Tomei plays a middle-aged mom (still cute of course) who is one of his pupils. Of course, a romance develops between them.
The movie was written and directed by Marc Lawrence. (Disclosure: Marc’s son Clyde and my son Jonny play in a band together. Clyde, who is a senior at Brown, wrote the music for the movie, and Jonny played guitar (uncredited alas) on some of the tracks.) Marc is responsible as writer and/or director for several of our favorite romantic comedies, including Music and Lyrics, Miss Congeniality, Two weeks’ notice, and Miss Congeniality 2. As is evident, he and Hugh Grant have worked together on many fruitful projects.
In the Boston area the film is showing at the AMC in Danvers. It is also available on AppleTV (Dr. Laura gave it a 10/10), and On Demand on Verizon. We are planning to watch it tonight with Jonny and Katie when they get back from Western MA. I’ll let you know if it lives up to its humorous trailers…

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The movie lived up to its ratings and more. The writing was witty, the acting was excellent, the music was well done, and the film was well-crafted. If you’re a fan of romantic comedies, this one is worth seeing.

…and Clyde Lawrence, thanks for letting us know about Jonny’s end credit! (as well as the rest of the band) We all cheered when they came up!