Shallow drizzle.
Lawrence has not, I fear, improved upon the equally painting-by-numbers effort of Music and Lyrics, though film is enjoyable enough in terms of jaded screenwriter finding himself through teaching college class: it's just all so shallow.
Features Hugh Grant, looking a little battered, Marisa Tomei, J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney (neither's talents exploited particularly well), Chris Elliott, various classmates etc. (sorry - I'm sure you'll all do really well).
There was a scene in one of the endings too many where Grant is holding up bookstore line and there's a bored girl behind him - I so wanted that bored girl to be the one you watch, to really make something out of that. It didn't happen.
The trouble with supposedly smart films like this - which comment on the Hollywood film-making process - is that they invariably remind you that the film you're watching is in that same sloughy (that is a word: I looked it up) rut.
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