Well... I hate to give TOO much away, since... it seems so many people in here can't wait to go watch it. ;-)
That Amazon synopsis has the basics of it correct. Larry get's laid off from his job because the his company decides that all managers should have college degrees. Apparently, we was divorced a few years earlier... and, bought out his wife's half of the house, so he's under-water on his loan.
He decides to attend college at a local regional school. While there, he meets and be-friends some young kids who ride scooters... discovers that he enjoys learning economics, and becomes attracted to his speech teacher (Roberts), who has a number of issues of her own.
It's not a HEAVY movie, by any stretch. It has a few logical issues... But, I thought it was entertaining. It was rather well written... Several of the characters were "different", but interesting. Cedric the Entertainer does a nice job in a supporting role.
There were a couple of things I didn't like... (the "strategic default" on the mortgage"... but, other things that I did like: Larry is a "nice guy", who's had some crappy things happen to him, but.. he doesn't sit around and whine about it, or blame everyone else... he ADAPTS. He does the things he has to do to try starting over.
It's also one of the few movies I've seen recently that didn't depict young people as all being stupid drug freaks. It does have the Hollywood-required favorable Gay character.. they just can't make a movie these days without a favorable gay character... but, it's a very small, but part.
It's not Oscar material.. but, I've seen a LOT of worse movies.
Thank you. Maybe I’ll see it when it comes to my local historic $3 theater.