Smart People
Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn
Rating: 5.9 out of 10TMDB(297 votes)
Overview
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.
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Box office
Grossed $10.6M worldwide, about 1.5 times its $7M budget
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Filming locations
Filmed in Pittsburgh
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Setting
Set in Pittsburgh
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Music
Music by Nuno Bettencourt
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Mark PoirierScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 11, 2008
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $7M
- Revenue
- $10.6M
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Dennis QuaidLawrence Wetherhold
Sarah Jessica ParkerJanet Hartigan
Thomas Haden ChurchChuck Wetherhold
Elliot PageVanessa Wetherhold
Ashton HolmesJames Wetherhold
Christine LahtiNancy
Camille ManaMissy
David DenmanWilliam
Don WadsworthHadley
Robert HaleyRoth
Patrick SebesCurtis
Kevin James DoyleRodney- Paul HuberBen (as Paul J. Huber)
- Iva Jean SaraceniVolunteer
Richard John WaltersParking Lot Attendant
Scott A. MartinWeller
Jane MowderJulia Knight
Adam KroloffTalbot
Patrick JordanWaiter
Amanda Jane CooperBrooke
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