Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche are paired in director Scott McGehee’s domestic drama about a dysfunctional, highly intellectual family in which the daughter is discovered to have an extraordinary talent for spelling. With Flora Cross and Max Minghella. (104 min, PG-13)

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This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2006.