Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn.
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant - but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His teenage daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er- do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find passion in anything any more, not even the Victorian Literature in which he's an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him.
Special Agent Matti
Well, I didn't see any smart people in Smart people but I did see a lot of people doing a lot of dumb things. Someone has confused educationally over-achieving with intelligence. If you want to watch dumb-ass clever people fuck up their lives and the lives of those around them then watch this film, by all means, but Sideways was better and funnier.
The comedy, drama, romance movie Smart people is directed by Noam Murro and stars Dennis Quaid, Rachel Weisz, Thomas Haden Church.
M (Moderate coarse language and sexual references)
95 minutes (1:35 hours)
Film: 24 April 2008
