Smart People
Showing Fri 16 May to Thu 29 May
Rated 12
- Director
- Noam Murro
- Country of origin and year
- USA 2008
- Duration
- 95 minutes
- Certificate
- Rated 15
- Cast
- Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ashton Holmes.
Screening Information
Matinees (before 5pm): £4.50 / £3.00
Evening screenings (after 5pm): £6.00 / £4.50
Booking hotline: 0131 228 2688.
Screenings from Fri 16 May
| Day | Screening times | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 16 May | 14:00 Filmhouse screen 1 | 16:15 Filmhouse screen 1 | 18:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 1 | |
| Sat 17 May | 14:00 Filmhouse screen 1 | 16:15 Filmhouse screen 1 | 18:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 1 | |
| Sun 18 May | 13:15 Filmhouse screen 1 | 15:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 17:45 Filmhouse screen 1 | 20:35 Filmhouse screen 2 | |
| Mon 19 May | 14:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 18:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 1 | ||
| Tue 20 May | 14:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 18:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 1 | ||
| Wed 21 May | 14:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 18:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 1 | ||
| Thu 22 May | 14:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 18:30 Filmhouse screen 1 | 20:45 Filmhouse screen 1 | ||
Dennis Quaid plays Lawrence Wetherhold, a miserable and pompous college professor who suffers a head trauma while trying to jump the fence at a car impound lot.
Unable to drive himself around, his screw-up adopted brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) moves in and becomes his personal chauffeur (if he can ever remember to pick his brother up). Chuck tries to expose Lawrence’s conservative daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page) to beer and drugs, and in the process, a complicated relationship develops. Meanwhile Lawrence falls for his Doctor Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), and realises he must find a way to cure himself of his unhealthy obsession with his deceased wife...
Ploughing similar territory (American family satire) as recent US titles Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, The Squid and the Whale and the likes, this is an auspicious debut by Murro and writer Mark Poirier. The cast are uniformly excellent (Dennis Quaid has grown into roles like this, perfectly), though there's no denying the film is at its best when Page and Haden Church are onscreen, in roles not entirely dissimilar from those that made them famous...
Please note: Contains strong language and soft drug use
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