This stoner romp is great farcical fun, even if it never seems to get anywhere.
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03/20/08
Smiley Face (2007)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:21
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Although many of the jokes have been done before, Anna Faris's bright performance and Gregg Araki's sharp direction make Smiley Face more than your average stoner comedy.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Jane F., an unsuccessful slacker actress, is having a bad day. And it’s getting more outrageous and comically surreal by the minute. Smiley Face is a freewheeling, cinematically stylized After... [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Adam Brody, John Krasinski, Danny Masterson
Director: Gregg Araki
Reviews for Smiley Face
Faris's prodigious comic gifts can only go so far with a one-note premise.
12/27/08
A limp, unfunny time-waster.
10/22/08
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10/18/08
Anna Faris receives a well-deserved spotlight role, and her funniest character to date, in director Gregg Araki’s stoner comedy Smiley Face.
08/28/08
Smiley Face semble avoir été écrit en quatrième vitesse sur un coin de table par un étudiant passant le plus clair de son temps caché à fumer autre chose que des cigarettes
08/07/08
Anna Faris is radiantly daft; she keeps the movie going all by herself.
01/18/08
...there's simply no overlooking the pervading vibe of silliness.
01/09/08
Despite its laid-back script, Smiley Face is as prankishly political as Mr. Araki's Doom Generation...
12/28/07
Top CriticDylan 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.
12/28/07
Maybe this is funny if you're actually stoned. When taken sober, not so much.
12/26/07
Working from a script by TV actor Dylan Haggerty, [director] 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.
12/26/07
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 wander slack-jawed through a surreal day in Los Angeles.
12/26/07
One shudders to think what Smiley Face might have been with someone like Paris Hilton in the role. But Faris has this character -- a bright, sweet college graduate with a temporarily incapacitated brain -- down perfect.
12/26/07
Anna Faris is alternately hilarious and annoying in this stoner comedy.
12/23/07
This is a full-force, all-purpose performance by Faris with the kind of grace that would get winks from the likes of silent screen greats.
12/21/07
Smiley Face belongs to Faris, an actress who is some kind of treasure.
12/21/07
Faris gamely goes Garbo and Lombard one better, taking her cute little firecracker looks and being willing to go full-out to appear appropriately, hilariously awful when the story calls for it.
12/21/07
The real reason to invest your time is Anna Faris, America’s best-kept comedy secret and long overdue for the kind of major stardom her male counterparts enjoy as a matter of course.
12/20/07
Araki's latest is surprisingly mellow in its examination of ganja-fueled apathy.
12/19/07
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