7. Smart People – $4.1M

For his feature film debut, director Noam Murro assembles an impressive cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, and Ellen Page. Quaid (VANTAGE POINT) stars as a brilliant-but-unhappy professor whose life begins to change–for the better–when he has a stroke. The experience allows him to reconnect with a former student (Parker) and his adopted brother (Church). JUNO breakout Paige plays the professor’s equally intelligent daughter.