Smart People

Smart People

Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn

200895 min5.9 / 10

A character-driven comedy-drama about an arrogant professor learning humility through family and romantic entanglement, balancing intellectual wit with emotional growth.

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold 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.

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