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    Smart People


    MPAA Rating: R | Year: 2008 | Running Time: 95 minutes

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    Commercial director Noam Murro makes the leap to feature films with this comedy drama concerning an aging professor-turned-bitter eccentric due to the death of his longtime wife. Ever since his wife passed away, Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) has become overly acerbic and self-absorbed. He's ...more

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    • Smart People - A scene from the film "Smart People."
    • Smart People - A scene from the film "Smart People."
    • Smart People - A scene from the film "Smart People."
    • Smart People - A scene from the film "Smart People."

    From the sullen tones pervading director Noam Murro's Smart People, you might assume that the film's working title was Disgruntled People. Plenty of polysyllabic words and elitist collegiate talk is thrown around, but the movie is less about the main characters' MENSA-worthy wiles than their psychological woes. There's Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), an English professor at Carnegie Mellon whose students consistently agree that he's an ass, his straightlaced Young Republican daughter ...more

    Box Office Info

    • Date
    • Rank
    • Weekend
      Gross
    • %Change
    • Theater
      Count
    • Total
      Gross
    • Week#
    • Apr 13
    • 7
    • $4,200,000
    • -
    • 1106
    • $4,200,000
    • 1
    • Apr 20
    • 11
    • $1,613,000
    • -61%
    • 1119
    • $6,818,600
    • 2


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