Smiley Face (2007)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 12
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.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2
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.
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One woman's day goes all to pot in this resinous comedy from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. Jane (Anna Faris) is a college dropout and aspiring actress who suffers from a certain lack of ambition, doubtless reinforced by her fondness for marijuana. One morning, Jane wakes with a busy day ahead of her -- she has a big audition, she has to pay the electric bill on her apartment to prevent the power from being shut off, and she needs to pick up some pot after paying her debt to her dealer --
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Cast
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Anna Faris
Jane F. -
Roscoe Lee Browne
Roscoe Lee Browne -
Danny Masterson
Steve the Roommate -
Ben Falcone
Agent -
Adam Brody
Steve the Dealer -
Brian Posehn
Bus Driver -
Rick Hoffman
Angry Face -
Matthew Evans
Bobby -
Davenia McFadden
Bus Passenger -
Joey "Coco" Diaz
Security Guard -
Jim Rash
Casting Assistant -
Jayma Mays
Actress in Waiting Room -
Jane Lynch
Casting Director -
John Krasinski
Brevin -
Kai Cofer
Man with Weird Beard -
Michael Shamus Wiles
Officer Jones -
Marion Ross
Shirley -
Michael Hitchcock
Laundry Room Man -
Robert Michael Morris
Man Walking Dog -
Razzie
Hercules -
John Cho
Mikey -
Danny Trejo
Albert -
Richard Riehle
Mr. Spencer -
Natashia Williams
Motorcycle Rider -
Scott Thompson
Scott "Carrot Top" Thom... -
Chad Mountain
Marijuana Jesus -
David "Gruber" Allen
Hippie #1 -
James C. Mathis III
Hippie #2 -
Dylan Haggerty
Ferris Wheel Attendant -
William Zabka
Prison Guard -
Scott 'Carrot Top' Thomps...
Himself
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (12) | DVD (6)
Despite its laid-back script, Smiley Face is as prankishly political as Mr. Araki's Doom Generation...
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.
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.
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.
Basically a sketch padded out to feature length, the film constantly hovers on the edge between amiable and annoying.
Top CriticAn unabashed valentine to Anna Faris, an opportunity for the actress to show that she can carry a movie composed of often hilarious nonstop misadventures.
Faris's prodigious comic gifts can only go so far with a one-note premise.
A limp, unfunny time-waster.
Anna Faris receives a well-deserved spotlight role, and her funniest character to date, in director Gregg Araki's stoner comedy Smiley Face.
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
This stoner romp is great farcical fun, even if it never seems to get anywhere.
Anna Faris is radiantly daft; she keeps the movie going all by herself.
...there's simply no overlooking the pervading vibe of silliness.
Faris was always there to erase the headaches with her tuned-out, feisty, panicky realization of dangerous marijuana consumption. It's a lovely piece of bongwater-splashed idiocy.
Maybe this is funny if you're actually stoned. When taken sober, not so much.
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.
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.
Anna Faris is alternately hilarious and annoying in this stoner comedy.
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.
Smiley Face belongs to Faris, an actress who is some kind of treasure.
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.
Audience Reviews for Smiley Face
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- Steve the Dealer: Simple reaganomics apply to the production of hemp.
- Jane F.: Just because weed isn't taxed doesn't mean it exists in some sort of, you know, laissez-faire paradigm or whatever,
- Steve the Dealer: Did you just use 'paradigm' in a sentence?
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- Roscoe Lee Browne: This is the story of how of how a person got from point A to point Z. Some call it fate, others chance. But whatever you call it, it sure is an interesting thing to ponder, don't you think?
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Dealer: "You're going to have to pay me"
Anna Faris: Oh my GOD! Are you going to kill me?!
Dealer: "No Im a pot dealer, Ill probably take your couch or something"
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