"Smart People" (2008)

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"Smart People" (2008)

Uncle: Chuck Wetherhold (Thomas Haden Church)

'Uncle Fester' factor: Uncle Chuck has no home, no ride and no lady love. He supports himself by stapling flyers to telephone polls. But his seedy uncle act takes a turn for the worse when Uncle Chuck gets his Young Republican niece (Ellen Page) stoned and drunk for the first time. It doesn't get much better when he moves into his nephew’s college dorm room.

Uncle duds: While camping out in his brother’s attic, Uncle Chuck stumbles on his dead sister-in-law’s college sweatshirt. Needless to say, her surviving husband ( Dennis Quaid) and daughter (Page) are pretty skeeved out to see Uncle Chuck loafing around in Wellesley College sweats. Not only is he spilling food on a sacred memory, but Wellesley is, after all, the same women's liberal arts college that Hillary Clinton attended.

Say uncle: [Inviting Sarah Jessica Parker in for Christmas dinner with the family.] “Welcome. We could use a little anti-venom in the snake pit.”

— S.C.