{"id":523,"date":"2008-03-18T23:24:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T03:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/523"},"modified":"2008-03-18T23:24:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T03:24:49","slug":"smiley-face-2007-gregg-araki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/523","title":{"rendered":"Smiley Face (2007, Gregg Araki)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think Gregg Araki has nothing to do with Arakimentari<\/em>, the photographer doc I kept almost-renting a couple years ago. Rather he’s the director of hottt indie films Mysterious Skin<\/em> and The Doom Generation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A talked-about hit of Sundance 2007, this predictably turned out to be a breezily likeable little comedy which relies on the idea that watching someone act extremely stoned will stay funny for 90 minutes. It pretty much does. Mostly I liked the bummer ending and the rest was pretty okay, a time waster. Rented it as a palate-cleanser after Redacted<\/em>, which was rumored to be crappy and which I feared would put me in a bad, bad mood like Road to Guantanamo<\/em> and The War Tapes<\/em> did… but I kinda loved it so there was no need.<\/p>\n

Anna Faris with her mouth hanging open:<\/em>
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Watching someone who is very stoned is, of course, hilarious. Anna Faris (who I do not remember from Brokeback Mountain<\/em>) is very good, but could leave her mouth hanging wide open less often. There are also hilarious cameos by actors I mostly don’t know. In reverse order of how well I know them, they were:
\n – Danny Trejo, who doesn’t have much to do here
\n – Brian Posehn, who plays a big pothead on the Sarah Silverman Program<\/em>
\n – John Cho, Harold himself
\n – Danny Masterson (Hyde in That 70’s Show<\/em>), awesome as Jane’s roommate
\n – Adam Brody (skydiver in The Ten<\/em>) as the dealer
\n – John Krasinski (The Office<\/em> U.S.), who I’ve never seen before but I’ve heard his name a lot, in a good role as Jane’s duped love-interest
\n – Jane Lynch (Christopher Guest movies) as an unimpressed casting director
\n – late 70’s star and Hitchcock actor Roscoe Lee Browne as the narrator<\/p>\n

Anna Faris with her mouth hanging open:<\/em>
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Actually I had a better time wandering the IMDB looking up names than watching this movie. Get this, Anna Faris is gonna star in Kids In America<\/em> this year. Her co-stars are a different guy from That 70’s Show<\/em>, a different guy from The Ten<\/em>, a guy who is playing Hitchcock in a fakey bio-pic, and someone from the previous Gregg Araki film.<\/p>\n

Anna Faris with her mouth hanging open:<\/em>
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