First off, Dennis Quaid was really good in this film, I think one of his better films, the problem is Sideways and Juno are movies that have already been made. What I mean is that in Sideways Thomas Hayden Church played an annoying slacker friend here he is the annoying slacker brother and he's better in Sideways. In Juno Ellen Page is the smart and quick tongued daughter and here she is, well the smart and quick tongued daughter and in Juno she is just better. In a world were Sideways and Juno did not exist maybe I would have been more impressed. With that said the character development was weak, a lot of the characters quirks and decisions were never explained, Sara Jessica Parker's character was the biggest victim of this, why does she feel they way she does about Quaid, who is she, why does she act the way she does in the films finally and why don't I really care. So maybe without certain other movies this film would stand out a little more, but then again maybe not.
Review of Smart People
