FILM · 2007 · USA
Smiley Face
11 archived facts 1 topic 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
Anna Faris was Gregg Araki's first and only choice to play Jane.
- #002
After the more serious Mysterious Skin (2004), this was Gregg Araki's deliberate effort to do something a bit lighter.
- #003
This was the first Gregg Araki film for which he did not write the screenplay himself.
- #004
It was shot over a period of 22 days.
- #005
As on most of his films, Gregg Araki was the editor.
- #006
The film's working title was "Mary Warner," and at one point Winona Ryder was attached to it.
- #007
Dylan Haggerty's screenplay had been rotting in development hell for years. When the options expired, Gregg Araki seized the opportunity, having read it five years earlier.
- #008
This is one of Roscoe Lee Browne's last film appearances.
- #009
John Cho, who plays Danny Trejo's co-worker in this film, would later play his son-in-law in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011).
- #010
Although they do not share a scene, the film features two Glee (2009) alumni: Jane Lynch and Jayma Mays.
- #011
It is Gregg Araki's ninth feature film.
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