Synopsis

English professor Lawrence (Dennis Quaid) may be intellectually brilliant, but he’s sadly incompetent in essentially everything else. His sarcastic daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page) and layabout brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Chuch) are no help either. His former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker) may cut through the pretension.

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Failure to Launch starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker is a pretty calculated movie, one where the math is pretty wrong. It’s basically a by the numbers romantic comedy (boy meets girl, they break up, they get back together) combined with the mean spirit of Meet the Parents and the social awkwardness of 40 Year Old Virgin.

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