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'Smart People'

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It's hard to say just how Dennis Quaid manages to make Lawrence Wetherhold, the sour, self-centered professor at the heart of "Smart People," anything close to likable. Wetherhold is not one of those stock Hollywood curmudgeons with gruff charm and a gooey center. He has no charm; he has no goo. Yet, Quaid finds what is funny and endearing and worthy in the character, and his performance holds this...

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