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  • 2007
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Jane F., an unsuccessful slacker actress, is having a bad day. And it’s getting more outrageous and comically surreal by the minute. Jane’s misadventures begin when she treats herself to a batch of cupcakes left unattended by her psycho roommate that prove to be not as innocent as they appear. Soon, she is trying to cross town so she can...

Directed By: Gregg Araki

Written By: Dylan Haggerty

  • 2007
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 25 m

Smiley Face

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 18 User Ratings
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Summary Jane F., an unsuccessful slacker actress, is having a bad day. And it’s getting more outrageous and comically surreal by the minute. Jane’s misadventures begin when she treats herself to a batch of cupcakes left unattended by her psycho roommate that prove to be not as innocent as they appear. Soon, she is trying to cross town so she can...

Directed By: Gregg Araki

Written By: Dylan Haggerty

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On the plus side, 100 percent sober when I watched it, I can say with some authority that Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventh-hour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's "Nowhere," and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn.
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Gregg Araki's delirious Smiley Face is an unabashed valentine to Anna Faris, an opportunity for the actress to show that she can carry a movie composed of often hilarious nonstop misadventures.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
75
Working from a script by TV actor Dylan Haggerty, Araki manages to capture what he's been trying to say all along about the lives of the stoned and indifferent with the kind of effortlessness those earlier attempts sorely lacked.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
It's a fittingly loose, shambling little nothing of a comedy that's occasionally inspired, but at least a draft or two short of its potential. Still, it's a pleasure to watch Faris--a gifted, likeable comedian who tends to be the best element of many terrible movies.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
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Despite its laid-back script, “Smiley Face” is as prankishly political as Mr. Araki’s “Doom Generation,” evincing a deep unease with the media-saturated capitalist nation that Jane crawls inside her bong to escape.
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This is a midnight stoner movie if there ever was one.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
60
A sterling space cadet performance by Anna Faris floats the genial if slight pothead comedy Smiley Face, a distaff "Dude, Where's My Car?"
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Anonymous Content, ApolloProMovie & Co. 3. Filmproduktion, Desperate Pictures
Release Date Nov 16, 2007
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
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Tagline High. How are you?
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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