movies, and especially comedies, and this one hit it. Luke Wilson is great- and not only is he funny - but he does some seriously good acting - this is a role where you get to see that yes, as my girlfriend kept reminding me, he's handsome as hell, and yes, as anyone who's seen him before, he's a funny dude, but in this film, we get to see him act, and he does an amazing job. Put this with Gretchen Mol, who always does a great job, and looks amazing, but plays a very sensitive character... I want to see these two together again. The whole cast is strong, and throw in David Koechner - the funniest I've ever seen him and if you've seen him, you know how funny he is he threatens to steal each scene with a character that will probably have college kids dressing up like him next Halloween ... like I said, you have the makings of a cult classic here. You really should catch it in the theater too - you need to have that sensation of laughing with other people - you get that feeling like you're joining a club when you watch this movie. I can't wait to bring my friends as soon as this hits the theaters so I can say I was the one who told them about it first, and yes, I plan to see it again. Can't wait. Neither can my girlfriend hopefully not just because she wants to see Luke Wilson's handsome mug again

absolutely excellent job! keep up the good work and I hope to see more of your films!!

smile, Which I'm pretty sure are most people ;- .

a sweetheart of a movie. Hollywood should take note.

hoping for something familiarly debauched and "zany", he resists visiting those well-traveled extremes, as well as the dead spots and emotional browbeating of the small-and-heartfelt-indie-comedy genre."Tenure" is funny without relying on, say, Will Ferrell running around naked. It is heartfelt without a drop of treacle, and a "loser-finds-his-bliss" comedy whose hero and even his 'wacky friend' have a quiet self-respect which suffuses the entire film.No one will be surprised at this point in Hollywood history to see a Bigfoot obsession mined for laughs, or for an adult son to drop in on his father's nursing home and catch some old-people sex. But leave it, apparently, to Mike Million to deliver these goods in ways that we haven't quite seen before and deliver the news that David Koechner can really act. Bob Gunton, aka the warden from Shawshank Redemption, also displays layers I do not personally remember seeing before. I will now await him as I do the Philip Baker Halls... There are undoubtedly those who will accuse Tenure of not quite knowing what it wanted to be. But for anyone starting to see in every new movie merely echoes of its ancestors am I the only person in the world who found "Avatar" long, tedious and way too predictable? it was nice to see that Mike Million knew well the various territories on which he was in danger of encroaching, and deftly walked a difficult path between them. If everything in Tenure was familiar, nothing in it was tiresome or clichéd. Which takes real courage to attempt, and a real, veteran-like talent to pull off.If you watch this movie and feel that it did not quite deliver enough "Old School," or on the other hand enough "Rushmore," blame your conditioned expectations and watch it again. You'll realize you didn't want it to - and that it delivered something else. Real restraint. Real characters. Real dignity - even Bigfoot gets respect in this movie. And some real one-upping of the kind of punchline Gunton's "plastic knife" line comes to mind that you could have sworn could no longer be memorably/freshly conceived or delivered on screen.Then - since it's too late for him to punch up Avatar - you'll start wondering what familiarities Million is going to make unfamiliar next.

perspective, as some of the other reviewers, but I just had to write out my feelings about this Gem of a movie.Thanks to the producers, to MIke Million, and the well cast actors for making this movie! Thanks to ALL who were involved in making it!! Thank You!

because it is fun to see how others imagine academic life.BTW, e.g., "The Big Bang Theory" is not better either in showing academic life; still it is a fabulously superb sitcom.P.S. I wonder if the reason that movies pretending to show the intricacies of academic life end up painting a false picture only because showing the actual reality would be simply too boring and disappointing for the "people on the street".

relate to what he's going through. I liked the Million avoids clichés in places. For example, the Teacher's pet sequence was well done.On the technical side, the score is pretty good and the camera captures the simplicity and beauty of the location. The woods and countryside are nice to look at. The pacing is very slow, especially at the beginning. Luke Wilson is terrific. His restrained performance as Charlie makes the character all the more real. And if this film is worth watching then it's mostly because of him. David Koechner does his best with an ill-written character. Gretchen Mol is cute and likable. Sasha Alexander is wasted.Overall, it's not as bad as many reviewers have made it out to be but it could have easily been a lot better.