When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook makes his English-language debut with this Southern Gothic-influenced psychodrama about India Stoker, a maudlin teenager whose father has recently died in a car accident. Enter the enigmatic figure of her Uncle Charlie, whose increasing presence in her life creates tensions between her and her mother, who has become smitten with the mysterious charmer. Borrowing liberally from both Shadow of a Doubt and Carrie, Wentworth Miller's script of pure pulpy h find out more...