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Smile: Directed by Parker Finn. With Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Jessie T. Usher, Robin Weigert. After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, a psychiatrist becomes increasingly convinced she is being threatened by an uncanny entity.
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- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Parker Finn
- 2022-09-30
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror...
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is a 2022 American psychological horror film written and directed by Parker Finn in his feature directorial debut. It is based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn't Slept. It stars Sosie Bacon,Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Kal Penn, and Rob Morgan. It originally was set for a streaming release through Paramount+, but the studio eventually opted to release the film theatrically after strong positive test screenings. Smile had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2022, and was released in the United States on September 30, 2022 by Paramount Pictures. It was eventually released to stream on Paramount+ on November 15, 2022 following its 45-day exclusive window.
A sequel was announced on March 15, 2023, with a release date of October 18, 2024.
At a psychiatric ward, stressed and overworked psychiatrist Rose Cotter meets with Laura Weaver, who had several days earlier witnessed her art history professor commit suicide. Laura claims that an entity taking the form of smiling people is stalking and telling her she is going to die. Soon after Laura begins screaming hysterically and has a seizure. After Rose calls for help, she sees Laura standing up and grinning. With a shard of a broken plant pot, Laura cuts open her neck, and thus killing herself.
Later, Rose sees her manic patient Carl grinning and shouting that she is going to die. Rose calls for nurses to restrain him, only to see he was asleep the whole time. Concerned for Rose's mental well-being, her supervisor Dr. Morgan Desai gives her a week off.
Unfortunately, the hallucinations continue, making Rose seem unhinged and dangerous to people around her, including her fiancé Trevor and sister Holly. At her nephew's birthday party, Rose's gift has somehow been replaced by her dead cat, horrifying the children. She then sees a party attendant grinning at her and curses, then falls onto a glass table, thus ending the party in chaos. She visits her former therapist, Dr. Madeline Northcott, who suggests that perhaps her problems stem from her abusive and mentally ill mother, whose death from an overdose she witnessed as a child.
Upon learning that Laura's professor was grinning at her before his death, Rose visits his widow Victoria Muñoz and learns he was affected after witnessing a woman die by suicide. This eventually leads Rose to ask her ex-boyfriend Joel, who is a police detective, to go through police records for her. He is initially apprehensive, but eventually relents, and the former couple find several cases where someone witnessed a suicide, then a few days later went onto commit suicide in front of someone else, who continued the pattern.
Later, Rose visits Holly, attempting to patch things up, but only makes it worse. She hallucinates the entity taking the form of Holly. Joel eventually calls her, to inform her that he discovered all the witnesses committed suicide within a week. The exception was Robert Talley, who instead murdered someone, and the key witness to the murder continued the suicide chain. Rose and Joel visit Talley in jail, where he claims the only way to escape the curse is to kill someone in front of a witness, and do it in a brutal fashion to cause major psychological trauma, which the entity 'feeds' off of.
Rose angrily rejects the option and leaves. She is confronted at home by the entity in the Madeline's form telling her it is "almost time". Rose impulsively drives to her hospital with a knife and hallucinates murdering Carl in front of Desai to pass on the curse. Desai approaches Rose and, spotting the knife, alerts the police.
•Sosie Bacon as Dr. Rose Cotter
•Meghan Brown Pratt as 10-year-old Rose
•Kyle Gallner as Joel
•Caitlin Stasey as Laura Weaver
•Jessie T. Usher as Trevor
•Rob Morgan as Robert Talley
In June 2020, Parker Finn was tapped by Paramount Pictures to write and direct a feature adaptation of his own short film Laura Hasn't Slept, which saw a young woman seeking the help of her therapist desperate to rid herself of a recurring nightmare.
In September 2021, the film was announced under the title Something's Wrong with Rose with Sosie Bacon cast as the titular character. Paramount Players and Temple Hill Entertainment had boarded the film to co-produce.
The following month, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Rob Morgan, Kal Penn, Judy Reyes, Gillian Zinser and Caitlin Stasey joined the cast.
Principal photography began on October 11, 2021, in New Jersey, including in the city of Hoboken, and finished on November 24, 2021.
Editing and post-production started on December 3, 2021, and lasted through the end of May 2022, with visual effects was done by the-Artery and was supervised by Yuval Levy and Vico Sharabani , when the film was simply retitled Smile.
The film's score was composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer. For practical effects, Finn recruited Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. of Amalgamated Dynamics, who he described as a major influence in wanting to be a horror filmmaker for their work in films such as Aliens.
•Finn previously made a short film set in the same world titled: Laura Hasn’t Slept, which was meant to debut at SXSW in 2020. The festival that year was one of the first events to be shut down due to the spread of COVID-19, but Finn was still able to make a deal with Paramount to make Smile based on the strength of that short.
•Unlike some short films that evolve into features, Laura Hasn’t Slept doesn’t tell the same story as Smile; instead Finn thinks of them as spiritual siblings with “Pieces of DNA from the short film are threaded through the feature, and little Easter eggs here and there. And then Caitlin Stasey, who plays Laura Weaver in Smile, is the titular Laura in Laura Hasn’t Slept as well.
•Finn also stated that his intention with the nested series of fake-out endings was to get ahead of an audience that might have been trying to get ahead of the movie.
•On November 6, 2022,Smile was announced to have gone way past the $200M mark worldwide at the box office. After six weeks in release, and with strong holds; the split through Sunday is $99.1M domestic and $103.8M from the international box office for a global total of $202.9M.
•On November 17, 2022, Gallner went onto say that even though nobody has talked to him yet, given how well the film has done, he wouldn't be surprised if a sequel was announced sooner rather than later.
•On November 19, 2022 it was mentioned that with generally positive reviews and a box office gross of $210M against a $17M budget, there is no doubt that Smile will get a sequel. The plot ended on a bleak yet unresolved note, leaving an opening for a second installment. With Joel as the new possessor of the curse, the story would need a continuation. it was mentioned that the cast is aboard for a sequel and director Finn is already pitching ideas for it. But nothing has been made official.
Smile – Siehst du es auch? (Originaltitel Smile) ist ein Horror-Thriller von Parker Finn, der am 29. September 2022 in die deutschen und am darauffolgenden Tag in die US-Kinos kam.
Having spent years trying to flee her own childhood trauma by working her fingers to the bone, compassionate psychiatrist Dr Rose Cotter is used to treating the most damaged and vulnerable members of society. Laura's puzzling case, however, is a different story. As an unsuspecting Dr Cotter attempts to rationalise the dreadful delusions of the ...
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Smile is a film directed by Parker Finn with Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey .... Year: 2022. Original title: Smile. Synopsis: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
