- Two men in their fifties, in their twenties: Dr. Kete, a literature professor is forced to teach an undergraduate class and cope with the recent loss of his wife, while his best friend avoids a painful failing marriage. The two friends barrel through the hardest semester of their lives.—Anonymous
- LIT tells the story of two college faculty struggling to survive the most challenging semester of their lives. Dr. Samuel Kete, an acerbic grad school professor whos down on his luck, is ordered by his department to go back to teaching Intro to Literature, while his best friend Carrey Wasse realizes he can no longer balance his life between his crumbling marriage and mistress. Kete meets his students and realizes that the only way he can survive the horror of teaching freshman is to alter his syllabus, and focus the class solely on his wife's research: children's literature. Kete dodges around department policy by delaying exams, and allowing the students to select the course material. Meanwhile, Carrey comes to discover that there's no way his marriage can be salvaged. His rather mundane situation at home is complicated by his extramarital affair with a younger woman named Lorna. Unlike Carrey, Lorna is ready to take the next step in their relationship, and pressured Carrey to move out. The tension between his two lives forces him to deal the only way he knows: dump it all on his best friend. The two men barrel through the semester and come to realize that they are the cause of their own problems. LIT is a frank and funny buddy coming of age (50s) movie about male mid-life crisis and the complicated relationships between teachers and students that often take shape in unexpected ways.
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