Smart People DVD, 2008

Comedy drama in which Dennis Quaid plays a brilliant, grouchy, widowed English professor in the midst of a massive midlife crisis. He can't find a publisher for his book, he's forgotten how love works, and he's at a loss to understand his family. His son tells him nothing of his life at college, and his daughter is an acerbic-tongued overachiever. When his freeloading adopted brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay it looks like things might get even worse. Then Lawrence meets his former student Janet Cartigan and his cold, cold heart begins to thaw. But how will the rest of the Wetherholds deal with this unexpected turn?