The Professor

Name: The Professor
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: May 17, 2019
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Danny Huston, Devon Terrell, Johnny Depp, Justine Warrington, Kaitlyn Bernard

2019

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Saban Films | Release Date: May 17, 2019 | R

Starring: Danny Huston, Devon Terrell, Johnny Depp, Justine Warrington, Kaitlyn Bernard, Linda Emond, Matreya Scarrwener, Odessa Young, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Siobhan Fallon, Zoey Deutch

Summary: A college professor lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Director: Wayne Roberts

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Chuck Bowen

May 14, 2019

The film goes down easy because it saves the self-improvement clichés for the homestretch. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

May 17, 2019

There’s nothing wrong with a little cheese in a message about life, it’s just that with The Professor there's nothing more to it. Read full review

James Berardinelli

May 18, 2019

To work, The Professor demands that the viewer believe in Richard and, from about the 15-minute point, I didn’t. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

May 16, 2019

The movie, which comes off strangely wide-eyed about such “outré” things as marijuana and same-sex attraction, evokes some 1970s-era George Segal vehicle as it struggles to pair hip defiance with come-to-Jesus-style pathos, the latter of which provides a few of the film’s more compelling moments. Read full review

Richard Roeper

May 23, 2019

It’s never a good thing when a film about a dying man sometimes has us wondering if some of the people in his life will be better off without him. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 14, 2019

It flirts with being offensive, but falls short. It’s not entirely maudlin, not wholly misogynistic, but close enough. Read full review

Guy Lodge

May 14, 2019

From its rigid, symmetry-inclined compositions to its heavily worked one-liners, this is cautious, stifling filmmaking in thrall to a reckless, retrograde man, who does little in the course of 90 minutes to merit great fascination or pathos. Read full review

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Seel75

May 21, 2019

Funny to see there's so much negative reviews of this movie. Al those people really do not understand the message it sends. Loved it, cried about it.

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erosbas

Aug 2, 2020

Best Johnny Depp i have ever seen, never laught so good, 100% dark humor and about how to live your life!