Storytelling

I watched this DVD that was actually two stories, one fiction and one non-fiction. It was kind of bizarre and depressing. Selma Blair was in the fiction part as a college student. John Goodman played a father in the non-fiction part. Roger Ebert said he watched it three times? It was compelling but I don't think I could watch it three times. Too many other movies to see.

Synopsis

Two separate stories about the lives of teenagers and college students:

"Fiction," set on a college campus in the mid-80s, concerns female student Vi (Selma Blair), who finds herself dangerously attracted to her creative-writing professor (Robert Wisdom), also a Pulitzer Prize-winning black author, after he humiliates her cerebral palsy-afflicted boyfriend Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick) in front of the class.

In "Non-Fiction," Toby (Paul Giamatti), an aspiring documentary filmmaker, selects slacker Scooby Livingston (Mark Webber) as the main subject of his film on disillusioned high school youth.