Tenure (film)

Tenure is a 2009 American comedy film written and directed by Mike Million and starring Luke Wilson, David Koechner and Gretchen Mol. The film was produced by Paul Schiff and released by Blowtorch Entertainment as their first original production.

Charlie Thurber Luke Wilson is a beleaguered English professor at fictional Grey College who competes for tenure against an impressive new hire from Yale, Elaine Grasso Gretchen Mol. Jay Hadley David Koechner is an anthropology professor at Grey who tries to convince Thurber to sabotage Grassos career while being simultaneously obsessed with trying to prove the authenticity of Bigfoot. Thurbers articles are rejected by a series of academic journals and he worries about becoming a victim of the publish or perish pressures of professorship. And despite competing for the same job, Thurber and Grasso begin developing a friendship after she flounders as a classroom teacher and asks him for advice.Meanwhile, Thurber struggles with a series of personal problems his sister pesters him for money to pay for their fathers retirement home a smitten female student is aggressively flirtatious and rather than admit hes single, Thurber hires a woman of questionable sanity to act as his girlfriend for a dinner with Grasso and her snobbish boyfriend. ........

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