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[email protected] SMART PEOPLE will open in cinemas across the UK May 2008 Certificate: 15 Running Time: 94min Images from Icon titles are available at www.picselect.com smart people About The Production “ We’ll figure this out. We’re smart people.” -- Janet Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (DENNIS QUAID) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant – but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he’s as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His collegiate son (ASHTON HOLMES) won’t confide in him, his teenaged daughter (ELLEN PAGE) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad’s misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne’er-do-well brother (THOMAS HADEN CHURCH) has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can’t seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian Literature in which he’s an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet (SARAH JESSICA PARKER), the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him. Featuring the screenwriting debut of highly acclaimed novelist Mark Poirier (Goats , Modern Ranch Living ) and the feature film directorial debut of award-winning commercial director Noam Murro, SMART PEOPLE , is a darkly funny tale of a very bright family in way over their heads.