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| Review: Smart People (Blu-ray DVD) |
 I consider myself to be a smart person. Maybe not a genius, although I have yet to take the Mensa test, so who knows? As a smart person, I admit I am more prone to intellectual rather than emotional persuits, but I like to think I have a decent set of social skills. Then again, I'm not married, don't date very often, and I work most of the time, so maybe I am a little lacking in my social life. That's part of the premise behind Smart People from Miramax Films, but the film goes quite a bit further by poking fun at and exaggerating the social ineptitude of very intelligent people.Smart People Synopsis Ever since the death of his wife, Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (played by Dennis Quaid) has very little enthusiasm for life. He works most of the time and is self-absorbed to the point of not really knowing what is going on in the lives of his children. He has no regard for his students and fails to remember their names as pointed out on numerous occasions in the film. Then a chance accident changes his circumstances and turns his life into a bit of a circus. At the hospital, his doctor (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) turns out to be a former student, but of course, he doesn't remember her. After a colleague of the doctor tells Wetherhold about her, he becomes interested and Wetherhold and the doctor become involved in a dating relationship... Read the full review: Smart People (Blu-ray DVD) in Reviews. - Comments (Reply To Topic) - 
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