The missus and I decided to rent _Liberal Arts_ for the same reason many others probably did - because it starred (and was written by) Josh Radnor, the guy who plays Ted on "How I Met Your Mother". His character in _Liberal Arts_ was similar to Ted: a pretty smart but not always sensible guy who tends to let his heart rule his head and gets pulled in too many potentially romantic directions.
You can view this movie as Josh Radnor's fantasy of what it would be like to have a college cutie aggressively pursue him at his somewhat advanced age. That's only a little off-putting, unlike, say, Steve Martin's "Shopgirl", in which he had a beautiful early 20-something fawning ridiculously over his late-middle-aged self.
_Liberal Arts_ includes some reliable mainstream character types (the aging and regretful professor! the lonely bookstore gal!) along with enough quirky ones to spice up the mixture. The college-roommate scenes were familiar and rang true.
This isn't great art, but it's head and shoulders above much of what passes for entertainment these days. (I just saw _This is 40_, and compared to that mess, _Liberal Arts_ is practically _Citizen Kane_.)
You can view this movie as Josh Radnor's fantasy of what it would be like to have a college cutie aggressively pursue him at his somewhat advanced age. That's only a little off-putting, unlike, say, Steve Martin's "Shopgirl", in which he had a beautiful early 20-something fawning ridiculously over his late-middle-aged self.
_Liberal Arts_ includes some reliable mainstream character types (the aging and regretful professor! the lonely bookstore gal!) along with enough quirky ones to spice up the mixture. The college-roommate scenes were familiar and rang true.
This isn't great art, but it's head and shoulders above much of what passes for entertainment these days. (I just saw _This is 40_, and compared to that mess, _Liberal Arts_ is practically _Citizen Kane_.)