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
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 2008 | Running Time: 95 minutes
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$29.99SMART PEOPLE (BLINDNESS FREE MOVIE TICKET) / (WS)
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$15.99SMART PEOPLE (BLINDNESS MOVIE TICKET) / (WS SUB)
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
- Dennis Quaid - Lawrence Wetherhold
- Sarah Jessica Parker - Janet Hartigan
- Thomas Haden Church - Chuck Wetherhold
- Ellen Page - Vanessa Wetherhold
- Ashton Holmes - James Wetherhold
- David Denman - William
- Camille Mana - Missy
- Noam Murro - Director
- Edward N. Rugoff - Executive Producer
- Jennifer Roth - Executive Producer
- Bill Block - Executive Producer
- Said Boudarga - Executive Producer
- Marina Grasic - Executive Producer
- Paul Hanson - Executive Producer
- Steffen Aumüller - Executive Producer
- Kenneth Orkin - Executive Producer
- Omar Amanat - Executive Producer
- Michael London - Producer
- Bruna Papandrea - Producer
- Michael Costigan - Producer
- Bridget Johnson - Producer
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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