Gosh, why didn't this movie make hundreds of millions?

Who wouldn't want to see this? Lands sakes, doesn't it look like a caution? By crinkey, can't you just imagine the highjinks those two might get up to? Too bad it skewed old. Hollywood Reporter says:

Did he say that? There's a studio exec who uses the phrase "my goodness"? Jinkies! But how old is a bristlecone pine? Wikipedia is helpful:

So there you have it. The average age of a "Larry Crowne" is over 5,000 years old. But that may be the collected age of everyone who actually saw it.