Imperious, testy, acerbic, monumentally tactless, and maddeningly self-absorbed Victorian Literature professor Lawrence Wetherhold is a middle-aged intellectual bully, whose cutting tongue has alienated his son James and made his daughter Vanessa into an unhappy, friendless Teen.He finds himself in the care of ex student Dr. Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker) after an accident leaves him injured.Having not been with a woman since the death of his wife he decides to pursue Janet much to the annoyance of his seventeen year old daughter Vanessa, who takes an instant dislike to the new woman in her father's life.Matters are made even worse when Lawrence's good-for-nothing adopted brother Chuck, played by Thomas Hayden Church, decides to move into the family home, making their dysfunctional lives even worse.Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Hayden Chuch, Ellen Page.Smart People is released 16th May
Smart People
Imperious, testy, acerbic, monumentally tactless, and maddeningly self-absorbed Victorian Literature professor Lawrence Wetherhold is a middle-aged intellectual bully, whose cutting tongue has alienated his son James and made his daughter Vanessa into an unhappy, friendless Teen.He finds himself in the care of ex student Dr. Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker) after an accident leaves him injured.Having not been with a woman since the death of his wife he decides to pursue Janet much to the annoyance of his seventeen year old daughter Vanessa, who takes an instant dislike to the new woman in her father's life.Matters are made even worse when Lawrence's good-for-nothing adopted brother Chuck, played by Thomas Hayden Church, decides to move into the family home, making their dysfunctional lives even worse.Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Hayden Chuch, Ellen Page.Smart People is released 16th May