SummaryWhen Emily (Nicole Hayden), a librarian-to-be, is assigned to tutor Mateo (Walter Perez), a struggling undergrad, in American Lit, they do not get along. But when the discussion turns from classics to confessions, they learn something that could change their lives forever.
SummaryWhen Emily (Nicole Hayden), a librarian-to-be, is assigned to tutor Mateo (Walter Perez), a struggling undergrad, in American Lit, they do not get along. But when the discussion turns from classics to confessions, they learn something that could change their lives forever.
The script plays like something by an English major overstuffed with knowledge of lit but whose real-life experience is drawn largely from movies -- and whose simplistic views on race and class are straight out of the white liberal's "But I mean well..." handbook.
Hayden and Perez do their best to generate sweetness and spark, but the obstacles separating these characters are as contrived as the cliches that animate them.