Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run...

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suav...

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the ...

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...

A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy docto...

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour o...

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...

Rajakumaran, a talented teacher and also a trainer for other teaching staff. His way of communicatio...

A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him ...

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been in...

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an int...

Following the lackluster launch of her debut novel, 35-year-old writer Kate Conklin receives an invi...

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious...

Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments ...

Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some...

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe...

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf ...