With: Luke Wilson, Gretchen Mol, David Koechner, Bob Gunton, Sasha Alexander, Rosemarie DeWitt. "Tenure," and what a laid-back associate professor will sacrifice to get it, is the subject of tyro writer-director Mike Million's college-set laffer. Luke Wilson revels in the role of a brilliant teacher whose tenure track is derailed by his failure to publish or ingratiate himself with colleagues, deans and chairpersons. But aside from Wilson and departmental rival/romantic interest Gretchen Mol, the pic's faculty seems to have been shipped in wholesale from a high school comedy, with puerile gags to match. Blowtorch Entertainment's debut production, as yet unskedded for release, may prove too safely middlebrow for mass consumption. Having already failed at more prestigious universities, Charlie Thurber (Wilson) sees Gray College...
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