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INTERESTING cast, dull film. Ellen Page follows her Oscar-nominated star turn as the knowing Juno by playing a teenager who is also wise beyond her years.

Sarah Jessica Parker as an ER doctor may stretch your credulity as much as Dennis Quaid playing a professor who's an authority on Victorian literature.

University lecturer Lawrence Wetherhold (Quaid) is not a very nice man, forever being rude to his students and rewarding them with low marks.

No wonder his children retreat into a world of their own. Son James (Ashton Holmes) just gets on with his life while daughter Vanessa (Page) is a chip off the old academic block. The unexpected arrival of adopted brother Chuck (Thomas Church Haden, the Oscar-winner from Sideways) looking for somewhere to stay sets the cat among the pigeons.

Soon, he's offering the prof tips on asking out the doctor who treats him in ER (Sarah Jessica Parker, abandoning fashion for doctoring) after an accident. This moves along at a pace no one would describe as hurried and you may well, like me, run out of patience with these selfish, dislikeable people well before the end of the relatively brief running time.

Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ashton Holmes.
Running time: 95 mins
Rating: Two stars

5:01pm Friday 16th May 2008

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