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Production Year: 2008 - Drama - Director: Noam Murro - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ashton Holmes, Ellen Page, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church more

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For his feature film debut, director Noam Murro assembles an impressive cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, and Ellen Page. Quaid (VANTAGE POINT) stars...
more...as a brilliant-but-unhappy professor whose life begins to change--for the better--when he has a stroke. The experience allows him to reconnect with a former student (Parker) and his adopted brother (Church). JUNO breakout Paige plays the professor's equally intelligent daughter.





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Not so smart
Review of Smart People (DVD) by MarcoG

Advantages: Good acting. Ellen Page
Disadvantages: Boring plot

(Film only review) On our weekly trip to the cinema, we chose to see Smart People, although not really knowing much about it, thought we'd give it a go. After seeing Juno and enjoying it hugely, primarily due to the superb acting of Ellen Page, I thought this has to be just as good…surely. I had seen snippets of trailers and quite liked the look of it, the quirky use of Scrabble tiles in the poster made me smile…I mean they use Scrabble letters ... Read review

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Smarter than the Average?
Review of Smart People (DVD) by afy9mab

Advantages: A good cast.
Disadvantages: The actors are wasted on poor writing and generic direction.

...that is nowhere near as smart as it thinks it is. The screenplay by Mark Poirier perpetuates the myth that all clever people are emotionally retarded, socially dysfunctional monsters with superiority complexes. It seems an odd prejudice to hold as without the titular smart people we would have died out as a species long ago. Nonetheless this has become a handy stereotype in recent years as the phenomenon of "dumbing down" has taken hold. As Lawrence ... Read review

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