Smart People
We rented this Saturday night and I was expecting a comedy for some reason. Actually that’s the only reason I did rent it… there was nothing else, so I thought, “ok, a comedy will do”.
It wasn’t a comedy. It’s more of a life story about ‘smart’ people or, rather, people who think that they’re smart and are therefore smug, pompous, belittling and arrogant.
Dennis Quaid plays the father who lost his wife a few years before; he’s got a teen son and a teen daughter – the daughter (Ellen Page), very much like the father in her air of superiority.
Quaid’s adopted brother (Thomas Haden-Church) is probably the only seemingly normal one although he’s a loser, flitting from job to job and always looking for a loan.
So it’s about their lives and the looking for love quest although none was actually purposefully looking. But once Dennis thinks he’s found something like love with Sarah Jessica Parker, he pursues it regardless of their rocky start.
It wasn’t a bad movie. I didn’t fall asleep although it was fairly slow moving. Probably too much dialogue for anyone other than women. Oh, I shouldn’t say that, I’m just purporting stereotypes, but when I think of what most guys seem to like, this doesn’t fit into it.
I didn’t laugh, I didn’t cry. It was a time waster that I probably wouldn’t watch a second time.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
I wanted to watch this one. But once I saw that it had Sarah Jessica Parker in it; I avoided it like the plague!! Can’t really stand her