How fitting: In today’s dysfunctional character study “Smart People,” Dennis Quaid plays a Carnegie Mellon literature professor who corrects a paper on Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House.” Though the “dramedy” is meant to exude satiric deadpan attitude, “bleak” would be the operative word for this sluggish modicum of modern Pittsburgh gothic.
Gray skies, gray interiors, gray people. It’s a winter of discontent in the Wetherholds’ bleak house in the ’burbs.
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