Smile PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 6, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mika Boorem, Yi Ding, Sean Astin & Beau Bridges | |
Performer: | Cheri Oteri, Linda Hamilton, Jonathon Trent & Erik von Detten | |
Directed by | Jeff Kramer | |
Edited by | Maysie Hoy | |
Screenwriting by | Jeff Kramer | |
Composition by | Neil Giraldo | |
Produced by | Kip Konwiser | |
Director of Photography: | Edward J. Pei |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Good cause, bad movie.
Salt Lake Tribune
Well-meaning but dramatically lopsided tearjerker bogs down in generic teen angst and domestic squabbling.
Variety
Rating: 2/4 --
Kramer may have felt that American audiences would have wanted to follow an American heroine, but it's Lin's story that resonates.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rating: 2/4 --
Overall, it's pretty elementary stuff, along the lines of a Disney Channel TV movie.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 1.5/4 --
This drama, which was bankrolled by the people behind the international Operation Smile program, has the best of intentions. But it's so painfully earnest that it becomes insufferable.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Rating: 1.5/4 --
However worthy the sentiment, this one won't leave viewers with a smile.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
There's little doubt that a nonfiction film would have been more powerful than this strained drama, which offers a Malibu brat as the audience's point of identification.
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
Exploring the differences in growing up halfway across the world, SMILE is a wholesome and positive look at two divergent cultures and the experiences of young adults in those worlds. In California, Katie (Mika Boorem) is born into a world of wealth and privilege, growing up in a society where her primary concern is her relationship with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, on the very same day, as Ling (Yi Ding) is born in China with a facial deformity, the scales are already weighed against her. Abandoned by her birth parents, Ling grows up in a world of hard work and little chance for escape. When Katie volunteers for a medical program abroad, she comes face to face with Ling and the difficulties she faces, and both girls learn life-affirming lessons about the differences and similarities between them and their cultures. SMILE also features Sean Astin, Cheri Oteri, Linda Hamilton, and more famous faces in supporting roles.
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- Sales Rank: 11,884
- UPC: 025192858123
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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