Submission starts out well enough, with Stanley Tucci doing his best as Ted, a mildly discontented novelist who teaches at a liberal arts college in Vermont. But things devolve quickly from Perrotta-adjacent domestic dramedy to outright cliché when Ted falls in love with a student (Addison Timlin), who is somehow writing a publishable novel. (Okay, stop: Have you ever been in an undergraduate creative writing class? NONE OF THAT STUFF IS GOOD.)
Anyway, buckle in, because it gets worse!