SMART PEOPLE
with writer Mark Poirier
Director: Noam Murro
Writer: Mark Poirier
Release Date: April 2008
Genre: Drama
Plot: 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. His teenaged daughter is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can’t seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian Literature in which he's an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet , the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him. Rated R for language, brief teen drug and alcohol use, and some sexuality
Sponsors: Talbot Bank & Wye Financial & Trust

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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 2:30 pm • 95min • Historical Society Auditorium • with Mark Poirier