The declaratives aspect is illocutionary whose successful performance, brings about the correspondence between the propositional content and reality (Searle, as cited in Levinson, 1985:240). In this aspect, there was only expression of deciding, for instance, ‘No, it’s not a win-win situation’. This was uttered by Lawrence to his adopted brother, Chuck. In this case, Lawrence expressed a decision to Chuck that it’s not a win-win situation. Chuck argued that it’s a win-win situation because he needed a lot of money and Lawrence needed someone to be his driver. From the explanation above, it can be stated that the ‘Smart People’ movie contains the illocutionary acts which had been classified and explained above. Those utterances depict us the use of language that used as a tool of communication. Then, we can conclude that this movie, as other kinds of literary works, is a mean through which the director intended to convey his message through the dialogue or the conversation that is performed by its actors and actresses. Furthermore, the conversation creates the plot of the whole story in the movie. Functions of Illocutionary Acts in the Movie ‘Smart People’ In the simplest sense, the word ‘function’ may be synonymous with the word ‘use’ or ‘meaning’. People perform activities with their language: that is, they expect to achieve an objective in speaking, writing, listening and reading. Competence in language is not simply the mastery of the forms of language, but also the