Smiley Face (film)

Smiley Face is a 2007 comedy film written by Dylan Haggerty and directed and coproduced by Gregg Araki. It stars Anna Faris as a young woman who has a series of misadventures after eating a large number of cupcakes laced with cannabis. The supporting cast includes Danny Masterson, John Krasinski, Adam Brody, Jayma Mays, Marion Ross, Jane Lynch, and Roscoe Lee Browne in his final film. This was the ninth feature film directed by Araki.

Smiley Face premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, followed by a very small theatrical release in Los Angeles it had a week long run at the Nuart Theatre in Santa Monica. The film was released to DVD on January 8, 2008. Nathan Lee in his review for the Village Voice wrote that ...100 percent sober when I watched it, I can say with some authority that Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventhhour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997s Nowhere, and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn. It also toured around British cinemas in the summer of 2008 as part of the 22nd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.In his review for the New York Times, Matt Zoller Seitz praised Faris freakishly committed performance as Jane F. that suggests Amy Adamss princess from Enchanted dropped into a Cheech and Chong movie. Andrew OHehir wrote in his review for Salon, Smiley Face, has a wonderful performance by Anna Faris and one of the alltime great stoner monologues in movie history. In her review for Cinematical, Monika Bartyzel wrote, Arakis comedy gives us the best of many comedic worlds in an incessantly funny, easilyquotable serving. From discussions of Marxism to love of lasagna, Smiley Face serves it all with some weed and a very, very stoned smile. The review of the New York Daily News states that Not since Sean Penns Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High has an actor so thoroughly dominated the screen while pretending to be in a chemically altered state. In the review of Los Angeles Times it is argued that Gregg Arakis 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. No matter how outrageously or foolishly Faris Jane behaves, she remains blissfully appealingsuch are Faris fearless comedic skills and the freshness o

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