A teacher is reunited with her favourite past pupil, who has returned from New York having failed to succeed as a playwright and under pressure from his family to get a job. She puts her reputation on the line to prove her protege has talent by getting the school to put on a production of his play. Comedy drama, starring Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano and Greg Kinnear.

Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.