Smart People [Blu-ray]

Director: Noam Murro Noam Murro

Overview

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 alienated his son (Ashton Holmes) and transformed his daughter (Ellen Page) into a friendless overachiever. Now, at the precise moment Lawrence thought he had finally figured it all out, his life comes crashing down all around him as he falls for a former student (Sarah Jessica Parker) and his shiftless adopted brother (Thomas Haden Church) comes knocking on the door in search of a place to stay. Though Lawrence always relied on his intelligence to get him out of life's little jams in the past, it's going to take quite a bit more than intellectual thinking to move past this sticky stage in his suddenly chaotic life. David Denman and Christine Lahti co-star in this romantic comedy drama, which serves as the screenwriting debut of Goats and Modern Ranch Living author Mark Jude Poirier.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/15/2021
UPC:	0810072542540
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	R
Source:	Miramax
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	36,067

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dennis Quaid	Lawrence Wetherhold
Sarah Jessica Parker	Janet Hartigan
Thomas Haden Church	Chuck Wetherhold
Ashton Holmes	James Wetherhold
Christine Lahti	Nancy
Elliot Page	Vanessa Wetherhold
Camille Mana	Missy
David Denman	William
Don Wadsworth	Hadley
Robert Haley	Roth
Patrick Sebes	Curtis
Kevin James Doyle	Rodney
Paul J. Huber	Ben
Iva Jean Saraceni	Volunteer
Richard John Walters	Parking Lot Attendant
Scott A. Martin	Weller
Jane Mowder	Knight
Adam Kroloff	Talbot
Patrick Jordan	Waiter
Amanda Jane Cooper	Brooke
Kiley Caughey	Linsey
Christy Harst	Waitress
Rick Warner	Bloomberg
Barrett Hackney	Joseph
Jose A. Rivas	Student
Nuno Bettencourt	Composer

Technical Credits

Mark Jude Poirier

Mark Jude Proirier

Noam Murro	Director
Mark Jude Poirier	Screenwriter
Bridget Johnson	Producer
Bruna Papandrea	Producer
Michael London	Producer
Michael Costigan	Producer
Hank Addleberry	Special Effects
Jennifer Smith	Casting
Matt Baker	Stunts
Deborah Aquila	Casting
Tricia Wood	Casting
Paul Hanson	Executive Producer
Kenneth Orkin	Executive Producer
Bill Block	Executive Producer
Edward Rugoff	Executive Producer
Jennifer Roth	Executive Producer
Said Boudarga	Executive Producer
Marina Grasic	Executive Producer
Omar Amanat	Executive Producer
Steffen Aumüller	Executive Producer
Mark Jude Proirier	Screenwriter