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
It’s a blast.
11/15/07
Gregg Araki's latest foray into the slacker underbelly of suburban L.A., Smiley Face, has a wonderful performance by Anna Faris and one of the all-time great stoner monologues in movie history.
01/24/07
A fast-moving, surprisingly varied take on a pretty standard concept: It’s basically Martin Scorsese’s After Hours Lite, as told by Cheech and Chong.
11/19/07
Smiley Face belongs to Faris, an actress who is some kind of treasure.
12/21/07
In Faris, pic has a comedienne with the ability to wring endless variations on a limited theme (the 'I'm-so-baked' one) and she pretty much single-handedly compensates for anything lacking.
01/27/07
Top CriticThis 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
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
Anna Faris is alternately hilarious and annoying in this stoner comedy.
12/23/07
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
The storyline is slight and the film succeeds only because of Faris's performance.
04/04/07
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
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
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.
11/16/07
Top CriticDespite 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
With a madcap script by Dylan Haggerty and a bubbly and inventive performance from Anna Faris, as well as a succinct running time, Smiley Face manages to sustain itself, and only the hard-hearted and humorless would feel that it overstays its welcome.
11/16/07
Anna Faris is radiantly daft; she keeps the movie going all by herself.
01/18/08
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
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
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