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Ms. Wright and all her acting colleagues provide very persuasive performances amid the shifting perspectives of Mr. Ruscio's convoluted storytelling. Aug 8, 2007
Ms. Wright and all her acting colleagues provide very persuasive performances amid the shifting perspectives of Mr. Ruscio's convoluted storytelling.
Andrew Sarris
Ruscio would rather add forced narrative complications than get to the actual core of what he's tossing out there, the sacrifices made in the name of relationships, dreams dashed or discarded. Aug 2, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Ruscio would rather add forced narrative complications than get to the actual core of what he's tossing out there, the sacrifices made in the name of relationships, dreams dashed or discarded.
Mark Olsen
The movie Little Children wanted to be. Aug 2, 2007 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The movie Little Children wanted to be.
Owen Gleiberman
It casts an increasingly hypnotic spell, thanks in no small measure to Wright - a fearless actress (and the real-life wife of writer-director Ruscio) who brings this sometimes despicable, often heartbreaking character to life with every atom of her being. Aug 2, 2007 | Full Review…
It casts an increasingly hypnotic spell, thanks in no small measure to Wright - a fearless actress (and the real-life wife of writer-director Ruscio) who brings this sometimes despicable, often heartbreaking character to life with every atom of her being.
Scott Foundas
Could have used much more of the sly and subtle humor that only occasionally pops up. Aug 2, 2007
Could have used much more of the sly and subtle humor that only occasionally pops up.
Frank Scheck
Part domestic drama, part thriller, Laura Smiles is so ambitious that its ultimate failure is more depressing than anything in its dark script. Jul 27, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Part domestic drama, part thriller, Laura Smiles is so ambitious that its ultimate failure is more depressing than anything in its dark script.
Matt Zoller Seitz
The film hardly registers as an open-wound document of a spirit more lost than she cares to confront. Instead, Laura Smiles exists somewhere in the middle, frozen by its pretension and incapacity to engage. Jul 30, 2007 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
The film hardly registers as an open-wound document of a spirit more lost than she cares to confront. Instead, Laura Smiles exists somewhere in the middle, frozen by its pretension and incapacity to engage.
Brian Orndorf
The film unfortunately ends as just another misguided indie, artily straining for substance. Jul 30, 2007 | Full Review…
The film unfortunately ends as just another misguided indie, artily straining for substance.
David Noh
Unlike many filmmakers who try to stake out the gray area between mundane reality and sleazy surreality, Ruscio maintains a successful balance throughout and gracefully brings the two together in a delicately ambiguous final scene. Jul 27, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Unlike many filmmakers who try to stake out the gray area between mundane reality and sleazy surreality, Ruscio maintains a successful balance throughout and gracefully brings the two together in a delicately ambiguous final scene.
Maitland McDonagh
Laura Smiles teaches us that you can't escape misery, least of all in Jersey. Jul 27, 2007 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Laura Smiles teaches us that you can't escape misery, least of all in Jersey.
Paul Schrodt
Ruscio's script is grim and darkly funny, but the big attraction is Wright's right-on performance. She's an actress waiting to be discovered. Jul 27, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Ruscio's script is grim and darkly funny, but the big attraction is Wright's right-on performance. She's an actress waiting to be discovered.
V.A. Musetto
It's an interesting profile in self-destruction until the script becomes unhinged itself and has Laura doing things that are not so much outrageous as hilariously stupid. Jul 27, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
It's an interesting profile in self-destruction until the script becomes unhinged itself and has Laura doing things that are not so much outrageous as hilariously stupid.
Jami Bernard
[font=Century Gothic]In "Laura Smiles," Laura(Petra Wright) seems to be the perfect housewife living in suburbia. She is married to Mark(Mark Derwin), a kind insurance executive, and mother to an eight-year old boy. But something is missing...[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]Nine years before, she had been an actress in off-off-Broadway plays, engaged to a writer, Chris(Kip Pardue), who had just completed his first novel. Then, tragedy struck...[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Laura Smiles" is an intriguing movie about how the perfect life may not be perfect for everyone. The film's structure reflects how much the lead character is disconnected, as she lives her life partially in the past when she was happiest. In the present, Laura is sleepwalking, passing as happy to everyone around her.[/font]
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