Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
Casts James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol, Bill Mumy, John Williams, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Kruschen, Charles Robinson, Howard Freeman
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Triplets of Belleville
The Savages
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Stranger Than Fiction
Love's Confusion
Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Forever Never Anywhere
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Cinema Ticket
Der Campus
Pinocchio
Under the Tuscan Sun
Wonder Boys
The Barbarian Invasions
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Serious Man
The Degenerates
Tiger
Smart People
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Triplets of Belleville
IMDB 7.4 | Jun , 2003
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.The Savages
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2007
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1982
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.Stranger Than Fiction
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2006
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.Love's Confusion
IMDB 3.8 | Nov , 1959
The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical student Dieter is dating art school student Sonja. Rather unintentionally, they exchange partners. During a carnival ball, Dieter makes out with Siegi because he falls for her her fresh and happy girlish manner. Sonja coolly observes this game and sees this intermezzo as a test for their relationship. While Siegi and Dieter vacation at the sea, Sonja falls in love with Edy. Now the die seems to be cast for new constellations. But when both couples stand in front of the registrar’s office, they finally come to their senses.Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1988
The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.Forever Never Anywhere
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2007
History professor Baisch, his depressive and tablet-addicted brother-in-law Anzengruber and a manic cabaret artist have a car accident on a remote country road after a party. Wedged between two trees they get stuck, doors and windows can no longer be opened, the windows made of bulletproof glass cannot be smashed. Injured and with no chance of escape, they wait for days for rescue. Their only provisions are a bowl of herring salad and a few bottles of Prosecco. Fits of rage and fear alternate with overwrought hilarity and desperate fits of crying. But it gets worse...The Fearless Vampire Killers
IMDB 7 | Nov , 1967
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.The Cinema Ticket
IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 1995
A determined young boy living in a small village strives to obtain enough money to purchase a ticket to the cinema.Der Campus
IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 1998
A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him of sexual harassment. A satire with plenty of situation comedy about a misstep with consequences!Pinocchio
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 1940
When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.Under the Tuscan Sun
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2003
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.Wonder Boys
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2000
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.The Barbarian Invasions
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2003
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.Crimes and Misdemeanors
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1989
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.Journey to the Center of the Earth
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1959
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.A Serious Man
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2009
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.The Degenerates
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1969
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Like the more famous version made by Federico Fellini, an adaptation of Petronius' Satyricon.Tiger
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1997
When the neighborhood bullies kidnap Tiger, a dog who can telepathically talk to his owner Josh, everything changes. What happens next will delight the whole family. What started out as a boy's dream of having his own pet, becomes the adventure of a lifetime.Smart People
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 2008
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.