Smart People

This movie is awful. Having watched it recently, the plot is already almost forgotten - something about a curmudgeonly (but not very old) widower and professor; his prudish, pedantic, annoying daughter; a nurse; and a lazy bum of a brother. While such a combination of characters seems like a fail-proof concoction for fun and exciting scenarios, somehow it completely misses. There may be one or two amusing quips, but for the most part the dialogue is flat. A dry, offbeat feel is striven for but not obtained, and overall it seems to have been a poor attempt at mimicking the more entertaining film The Squid and the Whale.

BOOOOOOOO!
1 out of 5
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Plot: 1
Imagery: 1
Originality: 1
Soundtrack: 1
Overall: 1