Smart People
Smart People is the black comedy film about Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), a self-absorbed widower who works as a literature professor. He has alienated his son and transformed his daughter (Ellen Page) into an unfriendly, overachieving teenager. When he falls in love with Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker)& lt; a former student, his ne’er-do-well stepbrother (Thomas Haden Church) shows up at his doorstep and triggers in him the need to change and rebuild his bridges with his family members before he can make any important decisions in his life.