Apr 11, 2008
95 min
Full-HD

Smart People (2008)

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.

Category

Comedy Drama Romance

Country

United States of America

Companies

GEM Global Entertainment Magyar Miramax Sherazade Film Development Groundswell Productions QED International Corduroy Films Visitor Pictures Chesterfield Writer's Film Project

Dennis Quaid

Lawrence Wetherhold

Sarah Jessica Parker

Janet Hartigan

Thomas Haden Church

Chuck Wetherhold

Elliot Page

Vanessa Wetherhold

Ashton Holmes

James Wetherhold

Christine Lahti

Nancy

Camille Mana

Missy

David Denman

William

Recommended For You

Comedy
2010
Movie

Cyrus

Cyrus

5.9
2010

With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before long, the two are locked in a battle of wits for the woman they both love-and it appears only one man can be left standing when it's over.

Comedy
2025
Movie

The Best You Can

The Best You Can

7
2025

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski in this smart rom-com that reunites Bacon and Sedgwick on screen for the first time in 20 years.

Comedy
1999
Movie

Mumford

Mumford

6.5
1999

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients!

Comedy
2010
Movie

Greenberg

Greenberg

5.9
2010

Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded there—since he doesn't drive—until his brother's assistant, Florence, comes to his rescue. She's as much a lost soul as he is, and the pair form a significant connection—giving Roger a much-needed reason to be happy.

Comedy
1996
Movie

Walking and Talking

Walking and Talking

6
1996

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.

Comedy
2003
Movie

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

7.6
2003

A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.

Comedy
1996
Movie

Cosi

Cosi

6.1
1996

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.

Comedy
1991
Movie

He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

5.8
1991

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.

Comedy
2007
Movie

Numb

Numb

5.9
2007

Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.

Comedy
2007
Movie

Dedication

Dedication

6.4
2007

A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.

Drama
2017
Movie

Almost Friends

Almost Friends

6.3
2017

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.

Comedy
2001
Movie

Sidewalks of New York

Sidewalks of New York

6
2001

The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.

Comedy
2010
Movie

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

5.9
2010

Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.

Comedy
1996
Movie

The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces

6.7
1996

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.

Comedy
2010
Movie

Jack Goes Boating

Jack Goes Boating

6
2010

A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered on two working-class New York City couples.

Comedy
2011
Movie

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

5.8
2011

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.

Comedy
2012
Movie

Small Apartments

Small Apartments

5.8
2012

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

Comedy
1989
Movie

Enemies, a Love Story

Enemies, a Love Story

6.2
1989

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.