The film "Smart People" shows that smart people can be quirky, boring and charisma free. It also shows that a movie that runs 105 minutes can seem like it has been on for hours and hours.

We weren't even half way through the movie when I started dozing off and I very seldom do that in a movie while Allen had fallen asleep!!!

The most disappointing aspect of Smart People is that one of American's finest actresses is wasted in a small throw away role. I almost didn't recognize Christine Lahti her part is so small and meaningless.

The only one who looks alive and is, supposedly, the loser of the group is Thomas Haden Church. His mustache alone is a character and it belongs in another movie.

The star of the film is Dennis Quaid and acts and looks the part as what once was called an egghead. Was he like this before his wife died or since? Who cares. Yes, he is quirky, sometimes funny and I have to believe that there are teachers like him on campuses but how they get tenure is beyond my comprehension.

I am one of the very few people who have never seen Sex and the City so maybe I have missed what makes her a star. In the few pictures and TV shows I have seen her in she has appeared pleasant enough and, once again, fits in that category here. There is zero chemistry between her and Quaid.

As in her Oscar nominated role as Juno, Ellen Page plays a thinner, certainly more beautiful, daughter but I hope she doesn't continue with these precocious, sarcastic teenage roles.

Ashton Holmes has such little time on screen in the role of Quaid's son is so small it really doesn't register.

There is a far fetched plot line about a niece and her father's adopted brother that is pretty off putting.

There are, in a sense, many different plot lines in Smart People but none dominant or really hold your interest. The film only goes to show that smart people can be as boring as dumb people.