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Annette O'Toole, Barbara Feldon, Bruce Dern

A small-town beauty pageant, and the turmoil it causes in the lives of its participants and sponsors, is the focus of this dark and witty cult comedy from Michael Ritchie (The Bad News Bears, <...( read more  read more... )I>Fletch). Bruce Dern shines in a rare comic lead as the chief judge of the "Young American Miss" contest, and his ability to find humor and pathos in his sad-sack character is well-matched by Barbara Feldon as a glacial former contestant, Geoffrey Lewis as a densely heartless sponsor, and famed choreographer Michael Kidd as (what else) the disillusioned pageant choreographer. Ritchie and writer Jerry Belson split the film's focus between the contestants (among them Annette O'Toole, Melanie Griffith, and Colleen Camp) and the sponsors and judges, and if the plot takes an absurd turn at the climax, Smile is ultimately a rare satire that cares for its characters while skewering their foibles. --Paul Gaita

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PG, 113 min.

Directed by: Michael Ritchie

Release Date: January 1, 1975

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DVD Release Date: August 24, 2004

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  • ileo
    January 9, 2008
    ileo
    Hilarious!
  • addison7683
    October 27, 2007
    addison7683
    Interesting...I expected it to be more satirical. This started to seem like too long of a movie toward the end, when the story was going into 2 or 3 different subplots. The beauty pageant theme is perfect material for a Christopher Guest-style mockumentary!
  • drrobert1
    July 8, 2007
    drrobert1
    Fantastic commentary on American Society. Still as relevant today.
  • sleddog323
    March 6, 2007
    sleddog323
    my jr. high band teacher is in it!
  • brianpark08
    December 10, 2006
    brianpark08
    Weak movie. VERY WEAK
  • jakerobertson2
    November 21, 2006
    jakerobertson2
    Drop what you're doing and track this down

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