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Smart People

Smart People

2008
Romance, Comedy
1h 35m
Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother. (imdb)
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Smart People

2008
Romance, Comedy
1h 35m
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Rated 11 Apr 2009
69
37th
I would like to see this movie written and directed by Wes Anderson and with Gwyneth Paltrow (or any female) instead of horsegirl S.J. Parker. That could be something great, but now - it's another mediocre indie soft-drama about nothing-special. I love Ellen Page (sooooo much, Pickpocket), but she isn't Al Pacino and unfortunately she can't turn crap into gold.
Rated 14 Jan 2010
40
19th
Way too typically quirky, hitting a passable middle road between humor and drama. Ending up being neither particularly funny nor emotional, it's just kind of there. Whatever.
Rated 17 Apr 2009
30
22nd
This Movie Was Empty And Sarah Jessica Parker Makes Me Angry
Rated 18 Jan 2009
70
34th
No matter how many movies she's in Sarah Jessica Parker is in no way attractive, and no matter how many movies Ellen Page is in, her pseudo-intellectual BS is never appealing. However, Dennis Quaid is watchable, and Thomas Haden Church is the only character that works with this personality.
Rated 13 Apr 2008
47
17th
Have you ever seen that website stuffwhitepeoplelike.com? Smart People is basically that website in two hours with ZERO funny. It should just be renamed White People. White People with unfunny problems. My God, this movie blows. How do people like this uncultured, witless garbage? The same people who think this stuff is funny are the same people who read poetry anthologies at their local Borders booksellers. What a bunch of dickheads.
Rated 17 Mar 2009
20
2nd
A movie with no people, just caricatures.
Rated 15 Dec 2011
40
14th
If it weren't for Thomas Haden Church I'm not sure I could have made it through this movie. All the other characters seemed quite annoying as they tried to deal with their pseudo-problems that made me dislike them instead of sympathize.
Rated 23 Feb 2009
30
9th
Boring... Just not a very good movie at all.
Rated 19 Jan 2009
55
50th
Thomas Haden Church is a riot per usual, and Dennis Quaid is actually quite good.
Rated 27 Dec 2012
40
32nd
Points for Ellen Page for her performance as the witty college age daughter. Dennis Quaid plays a crusty old professor and looks every bit the part an aging man beginning to get frail. I was not amused by his gruff character. Sarah Jessica Parker played a doctor and there was little chemistry between them. Thomas Haden Church was entertaining and unexpectedly not annoying. Except from a few good scenes, this movie plods along and hasn't really much to say.
Rated 18 Jan 2009
69
19th
Decently funny movie here despite being cast with two people who generally annoy the shit out of me, those two being Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker. Both Quaid and Parker play something outside of their usually normal roles and come out on top for a change. Ellen Page does a Juno-ish role well here. She may need to change it up to avoid being typecast. Thomas Hayden Church, aka Jason Bateman's evil twin, plays a "Less Than Zero" type character very well here also. This is worth a rental.
Rated 21 Feb 2010
70
16th
Disappointing. Some potential here, but as others have said, the characters were generally unlikable. There were a few smart lines, but just not very much fun.
Rated 23 Sep 2010
63
34th
They might as well have named it boring people. I don't know what it was but this movie seemed like it was six hours long. I kept checking the time played.
Rated 08 Aug 2008
60
16th
It's not without enjoyable and funny moments, however the film quickly begins to wander. The third act suffers because of the rather banal plot, and the picture card credits come off as entirely unnecessary.
Rated 29 Nov 2009
60
25th
This is the movie I use as an example to thwart those mindless Ellen Page freaks that praise her every move.
Rated 01 Nov 2009
70
42nd
BUena
Rated 06 Sep 2008
85
86th
To call it "smart" would be a cliche, but that's exactly what it is -- a well written, intelligent comedy about intelligent people and their social dysfunction.
Rated 24 Jun 2009
60
32nd
The music in this movie did not suit it at all and really put a damper on my experience of it.
Rated 28 Aug 2008
1
12th
I hate Ellen Page sooooo much.
Rated 13 May 2008
76
47th
I think the point of this movie was to make me hate the every single character. The "are we INDIE enough NOWWWWWWW" syndrome has gone too far. That, along with the predictible plot points, (she gets pregnant? no way!!!!) knock this movie down. Ellen Page was very good in this. Thought she was carried in Juno by a superb cast, but this didn't have that and she still shined. Who doesn't love to hate a young republican?
Rated 23 Apr 2010
40
8th
Unfortunately I just didn't feel a thing while watching this. Ellen Page was good and I've always enjoyed her, but that's about it. I didn't find the movie funny, I didn't find it dramatic, I didn't think the romance was interesting, it wasn't a clever movie. It was just kind of there, kind of blah, so I don't really HATE the movie... just not worth seeing because it's just another film like this in a huge sea of them.
Rated 27 Dec 2009
45
17th
It's terrifically acted but very poorly directed. The soft rock music all the time was rather cringe worthy as well.
Rated 17 Dec 2011
77
63rd
I enjoyed this character based film. Denis Quaid and Ellen Page give very good performances in this film. The script has some funny moments and it paints a good picture of a dysfunctional family.
Rated 13 Sep 2009
60
25th
It could be very good.
Rated 23 Oct 2009
55
45th
Mwuhhhh.. no
Rated 21 Oct 2010
10
9th
"Smart People is a borderline-excruciating exercise in trying to replicate the eccentric charm of Little Miss Sunshine." - Nick Schager
Rated 03 Jun 2013
80
77th
http://gorgview.com/smart-people
Rated 23 Mar 2009
35
14th
Ultimately unsatisfying.
Rated 27 Apr 2008
60
32nd
Though the performances are good, I absolutely detested every charcacter that entered the screen, making it impossible for me to care about anyone.
Rated 18 Apr 2009
60
23rd
Snore...
Rated 20 Apr 2008
75
59th
Ellen Page is basically just playing Juno again. And Dennis Quaid was kind of repulsive. Still, I kind of liked this film.
Rated 30 Nov 2012
60
44th
As tough as Lawrence is to like, Smart People is even harder to hate, mainly because of the sharply observed script by novelist Mark Jude Poirier. Just when you're losing patience with the movie, it sneaks up on you with a poignant detail or a character-defining turn of phrase.
Rated 01 Apr 2014
74
37th
CMU! - 10/4/12
Rated 24 Oct 2008
40
14th
If only Smart People were half as "smart" as it proclaims itself to be, the movie MIGHT have been HALFWAY enjoyable. The ill-advised film assumes that viewers will give a crap about a group of condescending characters and their paper-thin life problems. The screenplay is obnoxious; the judgement of the actors whom signed upon the project after reading the script is questionable, making one wonder if they share the attitude of the characters they portray. Not recommended whatsoever.
Rated 08 Jan 2009
64
28th
I just kept waiting for something to actually happen in this movie. I felt like they would start to build a story and then it would disappear. The interaction between Haden Church and Page was good. I wish there had been a little more of it. Although I felt like Page's character was too similar to her Juno character. It wasn't a horrible movie, but just felt it was incomplete when it ended.
Rated 03 Oct 2010
65
4th
65
Rated 01 Dec 2008
50
26th
Boring and slow, music too loud. Smart people are only rationally smart, not emotionally.
Rated 13 Nov 2008
80
66th
the characters are all so depressing yet i laughed several times while watching it
Rated 04 Jan 2011
30
13th
The title is incorrect. It should be called Emotionally-Stunted Self-Absorbed People. Seriously, apart from Thomas Haden Church, who plays the loveable loser quite well, I didn't give a crap about any of the obnoxious characters in this film. What plot there is, and there isn't much, is clichéd and incredibly predictable. It's like a coming of age film, only instead of a moody teenager, there's a smug, arrogant, 50-something Dennis Quaid.
Rated 06 May 2011
100
51st
good movie good cast good story 10 out of 10
Rated 13 Nov 2011
48
29th
Juno?
Rated 05 Apr 2009
90
38th
Completely horrible channel for a good Ellen Page performance.
Rated 21 Jul 2008
39
18th
Poirier's script has a point of view, but little to express about it, and Murro films it with dutiful efficiency. There's a grim outlook and a narrative destination point where the mandates of character development insist on that outlook lightening. The process of getting there is haphazard. Characters make choices with no compelling drive to do so. The film is peppered with the intelligence that the title promises. It's also rarely believable or built upon recognizable emotions.

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