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Smile
Smile is a 1975 American satirical comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Jerry Belson, and starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, and Geoffrey Lewis. The film focuses on various personalities involved in a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California, and satirizes small-town America and its peculiarities, hypocrisies and artifice within and around the pageant.
Plot
Big Bob Freelander is a used car dealer, and the head judge of the Young American Miss Pageant held in Santa Rosa, California. Brenda DiCarlo is the pageant's executive director, and her husband Andy is a resentful alcoholic. Andy is unhappy as he is about to become an exhausted rooster aging out of the local Jaycee chapter, which requires the humiliating ritual of kissing the anus of a dead chicken.
More details
| author | Jerry Belson |
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| contentLocation | Shanghai |
| director | Michael Ritchie |
| editor | Richard A. Harris |
| genre | comedy-drama |
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| musicBy | Dan Orsborn |
| producer | Michael Ritchie |
| publisher | United Artists |
| recordedAt | Santa Rosa |
| theme | satirical |