Smart People (2008)

Intellectuals can be pretentious and self involved, thus alienating others in there lives and making themselves unhappy, unless of course they learn to overcome these self-defeating impulses, this is what Smart People is about. Dennis Quaid gets to play one of these smart people, a professor, which is a little different for him, and Ellen Page whose trademark aura of being beyond her years I do enjoy, plays his daughter. They have parallel storylines about how they strain relationships with people they’d like to be close to, Quaid his doctor girlfriend, Page her uncle. There’s really not a lot new here, but its done pretty well, despite a certain superficiality about the proceedings, and my not buying everything about how the characters progressed. Upon reflection though, I really can't say I liked it, 2 out of 5.