university professor justin thorne ( jimmy smits ) have get it make . a good look and sophisticated teacher and with a loving wife and two adorable child . he play the saxophone and own an expensive car and his student love and respect him . but when temptation call and in the form of one of his bright and pretty and sexy and willing student and jennifer carter ( naomi watt ) and he foolishly give in . the next day and he be be charge with her rape and and his perfect life could be forever ruin . when we see an american actor in australian film and we know we be not in for a masterpiece . but even view with low expectation and gross misconduct be a huge flop . base on a play with a rather unimaginative title and then adapt into a reasonably enjoyable book and it fail to engage and convince or even remotely interest it audience on a most fundamental level . the script be awkward and unconvincing while the acting be and for most part and not much well . watts give an acceptable performance and demonstrate for one of the first time on screen her emotion rawness and but she be the only good thing about the film and which seem almost like even it can not wait to be over . the direction be not horrible or distract in anyway and but it be just painfully mediocre . apart from the afore mention naomi watt and who could be forgive and see a this be early in her career and the acting be wooden and get steadily bad over the course of the movie . the usually reliable jimmy smits doesn not seem to have be try in this one and and who could really blame him . all these small failure and however and only add to the film ultimate fatal flaw and which be that the focus be entirely in the wrong place . any empathy for the character or interest in the outcome be lose in a sea of what be basically soft core entertainment of an adult kind . by the end and audience will probably be bore and tire and wish they would do something else with their ninety minute . unless you just want to see naomi get naked 4 or 5 time and you could definitely afford to give this nonevent film a miss .