Mentor (film)

Mentor is a 2006 drama film directed by David Langlitz and written by William Whitehurst, exploring the relationship between a Pulitzer Prizewinning author and his protge.

Matthew Davis stars as Carter, introduced as a thirtysomething professor at a mediocre college. Through flashbacks, we learn about Carters time as a promising writer enrolled in an exclusive grad school class taught by Sanford Pollard Rutger Hauer, a harddrinking, harddriving, brilliant but abrasive writer whose career has stalled since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades ago. Julia Dagmara Dominczyk is Sanfords graduate assistant as well as his lover. Sanford and Julia adopt the young, eager Carter and expose him to the world of wealth, television, and drugs. Carter travels with them to Sanfords beach house, where he and Julia eventually become lovers.In the present, Carter has become a shadow of his former promise, a lethargic teacher, an alcoholic, excessive smoker, lacking the ability to sustain relationships. Like Sanford, he has worked his way through a series of graduate assistant girlfriends, and we watch as he apparently allows his relationship with Susan Lynn Chen to wither away. Carter is on a reckless path until he receives notice that Sanford has died of cancer. ........

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