Choose your weapon carefully: the pen or the brush. Jack Marcus (Academy Award nominee Clive Owen, Closer) is a writer who can no longer write he is a shadow of his true potential. Occupied as an English teacher at an elite New England prep school, he lives and breathes his love of language through the students, but remains a victim of his own vices often found at the bottom of a bottle. Enter new Art teacher Dina Delsanto (Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche, The English Patient), an acclaimed and passionate artist who is struggling with rheumatoid arthritis. Dinas cold and tortured demeanor ignites a spark in Jack. Relentless in his attempt to melt her faade, Jack tries to engage her in his perpetual word game. When Jack learns that Dina has told the students that words are traps and lies, that art is the only bearer of truth, he is quick to the defense. The gauntlet for a school-wide competition of words versus pictures is thrown down - get ready for an academic showdown of wild proportions. A playful romantic comedy from internationally acclaimed director Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, The Eye of the Storm), Words and Pictures explores the rocky terrain of relationships capturing the passion and the inspiration behind both the words and the pictures.