A teacher at a private girls' high school becomes the subject of infatuation by one of his students, has dinner with her parents and is asked to marry her.
Scott Rudin optioned the short story "The Smoker" by David Schickler, who was a private school teacher in Rochester, NY when the story was published in the New Yorker in the summer of 2000.
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Genres: Adaptation, Comedy, Romance
US Distributors: Paramount Pictures
Cast:
Natalie Portman
Owen Wilson
Nick Nolte
Director - Richard Linklater
Writer: David Schickler - Screenplay; Source Material (from short story: "The Smoker")
Peter Tolan - Screenplay