Description: Smile is a 2022 American psychological supernatural horror film written and directed by Parker Finn. It is based on and serves as a sequel to Finn's short film Laura Hasn't Slept (2020). The film stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist who witnesses the bizarre suicide of a patient, then goes through increasingly disturbing and daunting experiences that lead her to believe she is experiencing something supernatural. It also stars Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Kal Penn, and Rob Morgan, as well as Caitlin Stasey reprising her role from Laura Hasn't Slept. A feature adaptation of Finn's short was announced in June 2020, and the cast was added in October 2021. Principal photography began that month in New Jersey and ended in November. Originally set for release on the streaming service Paramount+, distributor Paramount Pictures opted to release the film theatrically after positive test screenings. Smile premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2022, and was released in the United States on September 30. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $217 million worldwide on a budget of $17 million. A sequel, Smile 2, is scheduled to be released in October 2024. REAR COVER 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 begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality. DETAILED PLOT At a psychiatric ward, therapist Rose Cotter meets graduate student Laura Weaver, who explains that she recently witnessed her professor kill himself. Laura claims she is being terrorized by an invisible entity that appears as various smiling people and has foretold her death. She begins screaming and panicking, prompting Rose to call for help; Laura suddenly becomes unnaturally calm and smiles, then fatally slits her own throat, terrifying Rose. The next day, a patient named Carl smiles like Laura did and shouts to Rose that she is going to die. Rose calls for nurses to restrain Carl, only to realize Carl has been asleep the entire time. Concerned for Rose's mental well-being, her supervisor, Dr. Morgan Desai, orders Rose to take a week off. Rose's hallucinations continue, leading those around her to believe she may be a danger to herself. Rose visits her former therapist, Dr. Madeline Northcott, who suggests that Rose's problems stem from her childhood, in which she witnessed the overdose death of her abusive and mentally ill mother. Later, Rose attends a birthday party for her nephew, the son of her older sister, Holly. When he unwraps her present, he finds Rose's dead cat, which has somehow replaced the present, horrifying everyone. Rose has a public breakdown and sees a guest smiling unnaturally at her, causing her to fall into a glass coffee table and injure herself. This convinces Rose that she has fallen victim to a curse, although her fiancé Trevor believes she has gone crazy. Upon learning that Laura's professor was smiling at her before his death, Rose visits the professor's widow, Victoria, and learns that he had also witnessed a suicide shortly before his own. Rose asks her ex-boyfriend Joel, a police detective, to review old police records. They find several cases of people who witnessed someone commit suicide while smiling at them before doing the same to themselves within a week. Rose tries to patch things up with Trevor but becomes enraged after realizing he has called Madeline to provide psychological intervention without asking Rose first. Upset, she leaves to speak with Holly, who also dismisses Rose's belief in a curse. Holly compares Rose's behavior to their late mother, and Rose accuses Holly of abandoning her before their mother's death. Rose and Joel discover the sole exception in the chain of suicides: convicted murderer Robert Talley. Rose and Joel visit him in jail, where he claims that the entity feeds on trauma and that the only way to escape it is to brutally kill someone else in front of a witness to traumatize them, passing the curse to the witness. Rose angrily rejects this idea. The entity appears at her home in Madeline's form and taunts her. Rose drives to her hospital with a knife and murders Carl in front of Morgan, but it is revealed to be a hallucination. Rose wakes up in her car to find Morgan standing outside. He notices the knife, but she speeds away, prompting him to alert the police. Rose drives to her abandoned family home, realizing she cannot pass on the entity's curse if she dies alone. The entity appears as Rose's mother, and it is revealed that Rose chose not to call for help for her mother because of her abusive behavior. The entity attacks Rose, and a fire starts in the struggle, seemingly killing the entity. Rose flees the house and returns to Joel's apartment. Joel smiles at Rose, who realizes this is another hallucination. In reality, Joel has tracked Rose's phone to her old house and finds her outside. Rose panics and runs back inside, where the entity reveals its true form – a skinless, semi-humanoid monstrosity with multiple sets of malformed jaws nesting within an enormous, smiling mouth. The sight of the entity's visage causes Rose to fall into a trance, and the entity possesses her by forcing itself inside her body through her mouth. Joel breaks down the front door and sees a smiling Rose set herself on fire, passing the curse onto him.
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Music Artist: Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Video Format: PAL
Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Rating: MA15+
Subtitle Language: Chinese-Mandarin, Traditional Taiwan & Singapore, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Canadian French, Parisian French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish Latin America, Swedish, Turkish
Director: Parker Finn
Sub-Genre: Supernatural
Cinematic Movement: Arthouse/Independent, Abstract
Studio: Paramount Players Temple Hill Entertainment
Edition: Standard Edition, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Aspect Ratio: 2.00:1
Type: Blu-ray
Format: Blu-ray
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Release Year: 2022
Language: English, Canadian French, Parision French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish Latin America, English Audio Description
Producer: Marty Bowen Wyck Godfrey Isaac Klausner Robert Salerno
Actor: Rachel Yong, Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert, Judy Reyes, Matthew Lamb, Vanessa Cozart, Caitlin Stasey, Scot Teller, Steven Bullock, Nick Arapoglou, Jared Johnston, Perry Strong, Jerry Lobrow, Steven Strickland, Jessie T. Usher, Shu Q, Brandon Brigman, Sebastian Deerkop, Ura Yoana Sánchez, Kal Penn, Sara Kapner, Rob Morgan
Features: Directors Commentary, Somethings Wrong With Rose: Making Smile, Files On The Wall: Inside The Score, Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary
Genre: Horror
Run Time: 116 Mins
Movie/TV Title: Smile
Season: Based on Laura Hasn't Slept by Parker Finn
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
