Dede Allen’s first feature back as film editor after her stint as a creative executive at Warner Bros. is an adaptation of Michael Chabon’s book of the same name, which has been called “the ultimate writing-program novel.” Though a box office bomb across two separate theatrical releases, this delightfully quirky Pittsburgh-set character study about perpetually stoned writing professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) found its most diehard audience within critics’ circles, and was nominated for three Academy Awards including Film Editing. Don’t be fooled by the movie’s much-maligned poster: the film’s charms emerge quietly thanks to Allen’s masterful pacing.