Smart People(2008)
Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn
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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Lawrence Wetherhold
Janet Hartigan
Vanessa Wetherhold
Chuck Wetherhold
James Wetherhold
Julia Knight
Joseph
Nancy
Missy
William
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