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Smart People
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Professor Lawrence Wetherhold 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 teenaged daughter 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 has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find passion in anything anymore, 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, the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him.
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Book-smart vs. life-smart
By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic
Posted 04/11/2008
Just because you're the brightest guy in the classroom doesn't mean you're not a dimwit outside of it. That's the point of Smart People, a morose comedy that down to the nanometer calibrates the distance between book-smart and life-smart. » Read more
MPAA rating:
R
for language, brief teen drug and alcohol use, and for some sexuality
Cast:
Thomas Haden Church; David Denman; Christine Lahti; Amanda Jane Cooper; Barret Hackney; Ellen Page; Camille Mana; Sarah Jessica Parker; Dennis Quaid; Ashton Holmes
Directed by:
Noam Murro
On the web:
 
Smart People Official Site
Genre:
Comedy; Drama; Romance
Running time:
01:33
Release date:
2008
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