Smart People

Dennis Quaid gives this the old college try, but he’s more believable as a cowboy or a secret-service agent. He affected some “quirks” for his intellectual character that were a little too transparent. Ellen Page was okay, but the script (or something about the movie) made her desires unclear. Thank God for Thomas Heyden Church, a kazoo in an orchestra of violins. He effortlessly steals the show, and just barely pushes this movie into “worth seeing.” Otherwise, instead of Smart People, it could have been called "Dull People."