Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
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Cast
- Dennis QuaidLawrence Wetherhold
- Sarah Jessica ParkerJanet Hartigan
- Thomas Haden ChurchChuck Wetherhold
- Elliot PageVanessa Wetherhold
- Ashton HolmesJames Wetherhold
- Christine LahtiNancy
- Camille ManaMissy
- David DenmanWilliam
- Don WadsworthHadley
- Robert HaleyRoth
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- Noam MurroDirector
- Mark PoirierScreenplay
- Toby IrwinDirector of Photography
- Nuno BettencourtOriginal Music Composer
- Yana GorskayaEditor
- Robert FrazenEditor
- Bridget JohnsonProducer
- Bruna PapandreaProducer
- Michael CostiganProducer
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