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Smart People starring: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes directed by: Noam Murro  
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Buena Vista Home Video EAN: 0786936755916 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Miramax Manufacturer: Miramax Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Miramax Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 12, 2008 Running Time: 95 minutes Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 2008 Sales Rank: 144 MPN: 5650603 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: From the producer of SIDEWAYS -- get to know a lovable yet dysfunctional family everyone can relate to in this lighthearted comedy PEOPLE (Leah Rozen) calls "smart and enjoyable." When Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) -- a widowed and self-absorbed professor -- falls for his attractive former student (Sex And The City's Sarah Jessica Parker) his all-too-predictable life suddenly turns sunny side up. That is until his freeloading brother (Thomas Haden Church) and his sharp-tongued overachieving daughter (Juno's Ellen Page)speak up making "chaos" the word of the day. Now on DVD SMART PEOPLE is even funnier with never-before-seen interviews deleted scenes and hilarious outtakes.System Requirements:Running Time: 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/BUDDY FILMS Rating: R UPC: 786936755916 Manufacturer No: 5650603 Amazon.com: Much in the manner of Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys, the very funny and bracingly intelligent Smart People concerns a college instructor meandering through life until unexpected developments force a cascade of personal changes. Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), a recently widowed literature professor, is a numb and chilly intellectual who rebuffs his students, ignores his all-but-emancipated teen kids (Ashton Holmes and Juno’s Ellen Page), and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck (Thomas Haden Church). After an accident lands Lawrence in the hospital and deprives him of the right to drive, someone else falls into his bleak sphere: Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment in him as a teacher and role model. Against all logic, Janet and Lawrence become a romantic item, a choice for which neither of them is entirely prepared. Meanwhile, Chuck and Vanessa (Page) enter an awkward phase in their relationship as niece and uncle, just another sign that the Wetherhold clan has become too insular and self-referential. Screenwriter Mark Poirier's inspired and literate story sets up lots of chaos, attitude, and cross-conflict, then hangs back and lets the characters verbally spar, much to our great amusement. What's happening, however, are deep changes in relationships and destinies that Lawrence and the others naturally resist, until they can't. Director Noam Murro knows one of his most important contributions to the film is to stay out of the characters' way and provide Poirier's barbed humor a supportive setting. Quaid is outstanding as the pivotal figure in this tale, a man who looks creaky and washed up beyond his years, but who is not entirely past redemption. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - "Forgettable" PeopleI really wanted to like this movie. One of my favorite types of movies are "dramadies" - movies that contain both drama and comedy, because that is just like real life. This movie seemed to fall right into that category. Not only that, but I really like many of the actors in this film, including Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, and Thomas Haden Church. Maybe in part it's because I had high hopes for it, but after seeing it I was disappointed. Some of the acting was good, and there were ... Read More Rating:  - Smart Actors, Dull MovieSMART PEOPLE seems an inappropriate title for this film about chronic losers. Though Mark Poirier's script makes a point (just because someone is intelligent doesn't make them 'smart'), the concept quickly grows thin as the one-note song plays out without closure or redemption. It makes one wonder how a cadre of fine actors can accept roles in a film such as this. Dennis Quaid (surprisingly looking fat and old and worn out) is Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed professor of literature at ... Read More Rating:  - Comedy of MannersBad manners. Smart people, not brilliant, just smart, behaving badly. IQ isn't EQ. So it goes. It is the first performance by Church, whose finely nuanced whining is fingernail-chalkboard for me, that I [very surprised, too] enjoyed. He's the emotional center here and the catylist for emotional healing, not recovery of emotional balance, because this toxic family trio is so practiced at being abusive to each other there is much water under that bridge. His performance is ... Read More Rating: - Smart Actors, Smart ScriptMy favorite movie of the year. Dennis Quaid is twice as witty--and only half as heinous--as a real college professor. Ellen Page is awesome too, even if if she doesn't cut off anybody's balls in this one. (Just as well: if I learned one thing from Idiocracy, it's that smart people--even those with all their reproductive organs intact--aren't reproducing fast enough.) The big surprise, though, is the pitch-perfect screenplay by newcomer Mark Jude Poirier, who makes Todd Solondz look like John Ashcroft, ... Read More Rating: - Smart People? Uh, more like ..."Dumb Movie"Formulaic caricatures comprise this thin plot line. Dennis Quaid is haggard, cast as a misanthropic, self-absorbed English professor. Sarah Jessica Parker is not credible as the high-heeled E.R. doctor who has time to casually chat up her patients and give injections that are usually delegated to nurses. Ellen Page reprises the implausibly wisecracking character in "Juno," sans the teen pregnancy. Thomas Hayden Church delivers his flat catatonic lines as though he is on anti-depressants. (I wish I ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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