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Smiley Face

High. How are you?

2007 · 1h 24m · R Comedy
Directed by Gregg Araki

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Overview

Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats her roommate's pot-laced cupcakes and embarks on a series of misadventures all over Los Angeles.

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All reviews
64%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Despite its laid-back script, Smiley Face is as prankishly political as Mr. Araki's Doom Generation...

Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
Fresh

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.

Nathan Lee, Village Voice
Fresh

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.

Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh

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.

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Fresh

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.

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

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