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Smart People(2008)
Status: Released
Date: 2008-04-11
58%
276 Votes
Time: 1h 35m
Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $7,000,000.00
Revenue: $10,569,964.00
ProductionCompanies: 
GEM Global Entertainment Magyar
Sherazade Film Development
Corduroy Films
Visitor Pictures
Chesterfield Writer's Film Project
Movie: Smart People
Top 10 Billed Cast
Dennis Quaid
Lawrence Wetherhold
Sarah Jessica Parker
Janet Hartigan
Elliot Page
Vanessa Wetherhold
Thomas Haden Church
Chuck Wetherhold
Ashton Holmes
James Wetherhold
Jane Mowder
Julia Knight
Barret Hackney
Joseph
Christine Lahti
Nancy
Camille Mana
Missy
David Denman
William
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