Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker
The insecurities and coded aggressions of academia turned this middle-class home into a house of horrors. Quaid’s miserable professor-father has raised a monstrous daughter (Ellen Page), who performs her deceased mother’s tasks between devastating put-downs and obsessive studies. Murro and novelist-screenwriter Mark Poirier nail the banter of an academic household wonderfully, but stay couched in the quirks of character types (though Parker’s romantic interest is initially spirited). Complexity (see The Squid and the Whale) is eschewed for campus-film conventions.
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