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Smart People Reviews

2008

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Smart People stars Dennis Quaid as Professor Lawrence Wetherhold - an imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed intellectual giant. However when it comes to solving problems relating to love and family, he's completely lost! His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows in her father's .. Read more

Starring	Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page
Director	Noam Murro
Genres	Comedy, Drama, Romance

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- Bearing a âFrom the Producer of âSidewaysâââ poster credit on its back, Noam Murroâs haughty,... read more on Time Out
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- - David Jenkins
  - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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  - 5
  Absolutly Awful!
  
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  Officially the first film I've walked out of.
  
  It's a complete pile of utterly pretentious toss with irritatingly moronic characters who are ... read more »
  
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  - sherlock2040
  - 18 reviews
  - London
  - 19 Aug 2008 at 15:06
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- - 0
  - 0
  Good flim to send you to sleep
  
  Very slow Quid looked drunk or on something throughout the film. The only redeeming actor was Page. But her talent was not stretched as it could of been, ... read more »
  
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- - doggies
  - 15 reviews
  - Goole
  - 06 Jun 2011 at 08:58
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  - 1
  Smart People are dull. COMPLETELY AVOID THIS FILM!
  
  So I rented this cause I thought it would be a rom-com, and as I like SJP in most things and liked Dennis Quaid in The Parent Trap, I assumed it couldn't be... read more »
  
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- - jevo90
  - 8 reviews
  - Southampton
  - 28 May 2011 at 20:29
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  - 2
  smart people
  
  I had high hopes for this with such a good central cast but it was a huge letdown .
  
  Unsympathetic characters, quaid mumbling his lines like a ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - edinburgh
  - 19 Aug 2010 at 14:53
- - 5
  - 2
  Smart People: Stupid Movie
  
  My greatest fear is having to spend an evening with someone who enjoyed this film. With its parade of uniquely egregious characters plodding through a series of... read more »
  
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- - RJTaylor
  - 31 reviews
  - Manchester
  - 22 Jul 2010 at 23:31
- - 2
  - 1
  truely awful
  
  only managed to sit through 30mins before giving up in despair, t what was one of the most pointless movies I have ever rented.
  
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- - jemima1
  - 1 review
  - belfast
  - 15 May 2010 at 20:50
- - 0
  - 1
  Very Very Slow
  
  I have to say i was disappointed with this film. It had all the ingredients to be a amusing yet deep film however it did not deliver.
  
  I tediously ... read more »
  
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- - Jocasta
  - Nottingham, England
  - 02 Mar 2010 at 17:10
- - 1
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  Smart People's Comedy!
  
  This was really funny in a very quiet way. Like Little Miss Sunshine, it had a quirky heartwarming edge to it and some very likeable central characters but ... read more »
  
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- - chiccinbum
  - 8 reviews
  - Bolton
  - 22 Feb 2010 at 01:14
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  - 0
  mart people
  
  Very enjoyable comedy fiilm
  
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  - somerset
  - 14 Feb 2010 at 21:27
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  Smart People
  
  Smart but not funny. Watchable but not a great night in. Was beginning to wonder when it would end.
  
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  - York
  - 10 Feb 2010 at 19:15
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  Smart People
  
  Although there were very good stars in this movie, it was slow moving and a bit dull.
  
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  - 29 Jan 2010 at 19:45
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- - 35
  - 5
  Absolutly Awful!
  
  THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS | Show review anywayHide
  
  Officially the first film I've walked out of.
  
  It's a complete pile of utterly pretentious toss with irritatingly moronic characters who are ... read more »
  
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  - sherlock2040
  - 18 reviews
  - London
  - 19 Aug 2008 at 15:06
- - 11
  - 0
  Good Film
  
  Surely the point of the film is that although the characters are academically smart they are not smart when it come to managing their emotions and relationships... read more »
  
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- - MW200378
  - 5 reviews
  - London
  - 30 Sep 2008 at 02:26
- - 10
  - 0
  Disappointing
  
  Ellen Page is as good as she could be in this poor film. I awaited it's release looking forward to the new film with the star of Juno in it but this was ... read more »
  
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- - Rima
  - 53 reviews
  - Cambridge
  - 25 Sep 2008 at 06:27
- - 9
  - 0
  Goes No-Where
  
  I knew it was going to be pants when I realised, Sarah horse faced Jesicca Parker, was in it. Its more like an episode of some middle class american tosh ... read more »
  
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- - lordflashheart
  - 89 reviews
  - Newport Pagnell
  - 19 Oct 2008 at 15:54
- - 7
  - 0
  Smart film
  
  A very good bare bones film about the every day life of people in general,all the performanes are top notch.
  
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  - Bargoed
  - 19 Sep 2008 at 11:05
- - 7
  - 0
  Very slow and pointless
  
  Well,what a waste of a couple of hours I'll never get back. I expected better from this but it was dull and slow! Don't go there unless you really ... read more »
  
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- - Sam
  - Leeds
  - 19 Oct 2008 at 22:30
- - 7
  - 0
  Boring People
  
  Too many unlikeable characters, too many scenes accompanied by bland music, too much boring dialogue. Not good enough.
  
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- 649089
- - a customer
  - Birmingham
  - 24 Oct 2008 at 17:32
- - 5
  - 0
  Great Film
  
  I absolutley loved this film, I found that it was very poignant and true that sometimes even the smartest of us are not always in touch with our emotions. By ... read more »
  
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- - jeribaby
  - 31 reviews
  - Nottingham
  - 19 Sep 2008 at 13:10
- - 5
  - 0
  WASTE OF A GOOD CAST
  
  THIS WAS ONE OF THE SLOWEST FILMS I'VE SEEN IN AGES & I COULDN'T WAIT FOR IT TO END, DESPITE THE GOOD CAST.
  
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  - ROGERSTONE
  - 06 Oct 2008 at 19:57
- - 5
  - 2
  Smart People: Stupid Movie
  
  My greatest fear is having to spend an evening with someone who enjoyed this film. With its parade of uniquely egregious characters plodding through a series of... read more »
  
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- 907548
- - RJTaylor
  - 31 reviews
  - Manchester
  - 22 Jul 2010 at 23:31

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  Smart People stars Dennis Quaid as Professor Lawrence Wetherhold - an imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed intellectual giant. However when it comes to solving problems relating to love and family, he's completely lost! His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued ...