Smart indeed. Set in the world of academia, acclaimed commercials director Noam Murro's debut feature is a sharp, superbly acted character-driven comedic drama about book-smart but heart-stupid people fumbling their way through two of life's most treacherous minefields: adolescence and middle-age.
According to all his overwhelmingly negative student evaluations, Carnegie Mellon English professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is arrogant, long-winded, critical to the point of cruelty and contemptuous of his students whose names he can barely remember. Lawrence's contempt isn't limited the eager young minds who take his Victorian literature classes: He's...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins