Submission

If you can't figure out exactly how this story is going to unfold during the first ten minutes, you're obviously a very trusting person and probably not too bright. However, Submission is not supposed to keep you guessing and wondering. It is supposed to make you cringe and reach out to the screen, telling the protagonist, "Don't do it!" Stanley Tucci plays a creative writing professor who wrote a best-selling memoir a long time ago. He used to have a lot of prestige and idolatry, but now, he's a little bored. When an insecure, nervous, boundary-less female student approaches him to read pages from her in-progress novel, she's offered herself as bait. Addison Timlin is grungy, with large black roots against bleached, unkempt hair, black nail polish, and an open inappropriateness about her that is widely known by her other teachers - including Janeane Garofalo, who warns Stanley about her! But, Stanley's ego is flattered, his self-importance is built up, and his boredom is replaced by feeling attractive to a young college student who could sleep with a guy her own age any weekend of her choosing. It doesn't matter that Addison is plainly untrustworthy and bad news. It doesn't matter that it's completely unethical. It doesn't matter that he could lose his job and ruin his reputation. It doesn't matter that he has a sexy, attractive, interesting, supportive wife (Kyra Sedgwick) at home. He's selfish and not thinking about the future. That's how people get into trouble.

Although he's in the film for only one scene, Peter Gallagher steals the show (as usual) with great dialogue and screen presence. He tells Stanley that memoirs sell when the author writes about a problem, like an addiction. "Compulsively *sleeping with* your students - that would be great!" It's only one scene, but it's the one you'll remember. The rest of the movie is one giant groan following your warnings to Stanley to stay away from Addison. This is a cautionary tale, and it tells it very well.

Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to sexual content, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.

Ancient history repeats itself in the modern college campus.Stanley Tucci does a good job of acting.

1. The portrayal of the post secondary "academic community" (in quotes for a reason) was so stereotypically artificial from the parties to the discourse to the mannerisms that it provoked me to write this wearing tweed; smoking a pipe & drinking from my Bordeaux glass or is it a Burgundy glass? 2. The abrasive part of the teaching style was simply made up as were the constant "air quotes". 3. Some viewers condemned the prof for taking advantage - get human & real! 4. The family turmoil from an affair, and the spurious academic committee review seemed too "made-up". 5. Ending had a cheap cute cleverness that fit w/the rest of the movie.

Despite strong performances and good direction this film fizzles out and leaves you disappointed with too many unanswered questions.

A situation quite similar to real life situations.

Her word is always powerful against his word combined with her crocodile tears. Dudes, always record interactions with a female during courtship or dating or even one night stands, or you'll be in a vulnerable situation where society is ready to crucify you.