Smile
1975VOTE NOW
| United Artists | Release Date: May 10, 1975 |
Starring:
Barbara Feldon, Bruce Dern, Dennis Dugan, Eric Shea, Geoffrey Lewis, Michael Kidd, Nicholas Pryor, Paul Benedict, Titos Vandis, William Traylor
Summary:
A social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants.
Long before David Lynch mined the seedy underbelly of small-town life for the film "Blue Velvet" and the TV series "Twin Peaks," Michael Ritchie directed Smile, one of the smartest, most-biting satires on the glossy veneer of middle-class America ever put on film. [18 Oct 1990, p.7]
Smarter and funnier than the recent theatrical release, "Drop Dead Gorgeous," Michael Ritchie's superficially similar beauty-contest satire was mostly ignored when it came out in 1975. It has since become a classic, and a high point in the careers of Bruce Dern, Annette O'Toole, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd and Melanie Griffith. [05 Aug 1999]
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