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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Noam Murro
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Actors:
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Sarah Jessica Parker,
Don Wadsworth,
Patrick Sebes,
Camille Mana,
Kevin James Doyle,
Paul Huber,
Iva Jean Saraceni,
Richard John Walters,
Dennis Quaid,
Thomas Haden Church,
Ellen Page,
Ashton Holmes,
Christine Lahti,
David Denman,
Robert Haley
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(6.4/10)130.5
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Plot Summary:
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Lawrence Wetherhold is miserable and misanthropic: he's a widower, a pompous professor at Carnegie Mellon, an indifferent father to a college student and a favourable-school older, and the reluctant brother of a ne'er-do-well who's acquire a win to town. A seizure and a clash send Lawrence to the pinch room where the physician, a former student of his, ends up thriving on a date with him. His daughter, Vanessa, outcast and friendless, who's been bonding with his confrere, tries to damage dad and the doctor's relationship, but Lawrence is good at that without help. Is there any way these au fa... it people can be involved in a sustenance? Can happiness be pursued beneath layers of irony?
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Absolutly Awful!
Officially the first film I've walked out of.
It's a complete pile of utterly pretentious toss with irritatingly moronic characters who are supposed to be 'smart' (at one point the 17yr old girl asks this other girl what's it like to be stupid!!!)... in fact the 17yr old daughter dresses and acts like a grandmother! I walked out at the scene where she was talking about having chosen the wine because it contemplates the ham she'd cooked... she got the recipe of the Internet and translated it from old French into English - whilst giving us a lecture about the history of the recipe!!! AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!!! It's not smart, it's stupid and desperately trying to be witty. Complete waste of Ellen Page's talent.
Smart People
Carina ChocanoSmart People is the kind of small, cranky family and/or friendship comedy that has been busting out since Sideways, often exceeding expectations, occasionally inspiring a backlash, and sometimes not. In this case, the lineage feels easy to trace because of the appearance of Thomas Haden Church as a charming reprobate, but there's plenty to link it to other recent comedies of measured breakdowns and bearable angst like The Squid and the Whale, The Savages and Little Miss Sunshine.
Selfish, self-absorbed, pompous, condescending and crabby professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is a jerk for the ages. A tenured professor of Victorian literature at Carnegie Mellon, he sleepwalks through his classes, can't be bothered to get to know his studen...
Smart People
Dennis HarveyNovelist-turned-scenarist Mark Jude Poirier and commercials director Noam Murro make a competent but just mildly diverting transition to features with Smart People. Dysfunctional family seriocomedy is well cast, but characters and conflicts lack the sharper definition of similar recent exercises like Little Miss Sunshine, The Upside of Anger and Noah Baumbach's films. It ends up less a dark comedy than a medium-gray one, the impact further muffled by its marinating in a tepid pool of generic soft-rock sounds. Unlikely to catch fire in theaters, these People will eventually find their company most welcome on cable.
Lawrence Westerhold (Dennis Quaid) is a widowed English-lit professor at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon. He's bored with teaching and contem...
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