Smart people
(DVD)

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.

Features: interviews with producers and cast, outtakes, deleted scenes, audio commentary.

Title from container.

Director of photography, Toby Irwin ; editors, Robert Frazen, Yana Gorskaya ; music, Nuno Bettencourt ; costume designer, Amy Westcott ; production designer, Patti Podesta.

Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes.

A bitter, aging literature professor falls for a former student.

Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment in him as a teacher and role model. But, Janet and Lawrence become romantically involved. Meanwhile, Chuck and Vanessa try to come to terms with each other and prove that their relationship is another sign that the Wetherhold clan has become far too insular and self-referential.

MPAA rating: R.

DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.

For private home use only.

In English with optional French or Spanish subtitles.

English dialogue with French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.