Pierce Brosnan

Unmarried and middle aged Cambridge poetry professor Richard (Brosnan) is a philanderer, who has modelled his life on the poet Byron and more particularly on his father Gordon (McDowell), also a poetry professor and philanderer, whom his son can never please. But when Richard has an affair with one of his students, the beautiful and much younger American Kate (Alba) and Kate becomes pregnant, they get married, he joins her in their lotus eating life in Los Angeles.