Comedy Movies 2008 List

With Dennis Quaid • Sarah Jessica Parker • Ellen Page • Thomas Haden Church • Ashton Holmes • Naom Murro • Michael Costigan • Bridget Johnson • Mark Poirier

"Smart People" is the darkly comic story of Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed and unhappy English professor played by Dennis Quaid, who has alienated his son and turned his daughter into an overachieving, friendless teen. He falls for Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), one of his former students, while at the same time his ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) shows up at his door unexpectedly, triggering a series of comic crises and eventually growth in the family as they learn to reconnect.

With Ryan Reynolds • Marcos Siega • Stuart Townsend • Emily Mortimer • Daniel Taplitz • Frederic Golchan

The story centers on a compulsive organizer (Reynolds) who decides to live his life without planning and in the process discovers love with Mortimer's character. Townsend completes the love triangle playing Buddy, the best friend of Reynolds' character who also falls in love with Mortimer's character.