A witty and poignant tale about uptight, pompous Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), who in the years following his wife’s death, has become a scourge to his students and an emotionally absent father to his rebellious son and perfect preppy daughter (Ellen Page). When he suffers a concussion in a freak accident, he meets and unexpectedly falls for a beautiful E.R. doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker), a brilliant former student who is still harboring a grudge over a bad grade he gave her years before.