Smart People (Blu-ray) (2008)

Director:	Noam Murro
Actors:	Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page

Lawrence Wetherhold is miserable and a misanthrope he's a widower, a pompous professor at Carnegie Mellow, an indifferent father to a college student and a high school senior, and the reluctant brother of a ne'er do well who's come to town. A seizure and a fall send Lawrence to the emergency room where the physician, a former student of his, ends up going on a date with him. His daughter, Vanessa, lonely and friendless, whose been bonding with his brother, tries to sabotage dad and the doctor's relationship, but Lawrence is good at that without help. Is there any way these smart people can get a life. Can happiness be pursued beneath layers of irony.