An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student return to her small town after failing ...
An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student return to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.
Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennylvania. She shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature. She maintain no close peronal relationhips aside from those she has with her favorite author and stories. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she devour on the page, and she likes it that way. But Linda's simple life turn an unexpected page when former star pupil Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano) return to Kingston after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Now in his 20s, Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing father, Dr. Tom Sherwood (Greg Kinnear), to face reality and go to law school. Linda can't stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams so she decides to mount his play - a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work - as a Kingston High School production, with flamboyant drama teacher Carl ...
