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 high-school senior, and the reluctant brother of a ne'er-do-well who's come to town. A seizure and a fall send Lawrence to the emergency room where the physician, a former student of his, ends up going on a date with him. His daughter, Vanessa, lonely and friendless, who's been bonding with his brother, tries to sabotage dad and the doctor's relationship, but Lawrence is good at that without help. Is there any way these smart people can ge... t a life? Can happiness be pursued beneath layers of irony?
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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...
Smart 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 literatur...
Novelist-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.
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This flick is one of those that either you'll like it..or you won't. Think of the lines of Little Miss Sunshine. It does take awhile to get into it. But, once you do it's well worth it. 4/6
This is a brilliant portrayal of everyday life it is subtlely funny and an excellent watch. It is not your usual american trashy romance instead it is more in depth take on human relationships. Don't get me wrong I love a good chick flick but this is an intellegent humerous film that expresses neuroticness and monotomy of life and every day tasks, but it enforces hope and the opportunity for change.
I'm not one to give up on a movie but something about this movie really bothered me.. I kept waiting for something to happen and nothing did. I shut it off in the middle I believe. I was pretty high when I was watching it but I'm pretty sure it wasn't very good regardless. But to each their own..(I won't rate this because I didn't finish it)
the film was disapointing..took too long to get started..not very funny.. it says it a comedy.. did not make me laugh..with a cast like that,it should have been better..4/10
