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FILM · 2007 · USA

Smiley Face

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  1. #001

    Anna Faris was Gregg Araki's first and only choice to play Jane.

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  2. #002

    After the more serious Mysterious Skin (2004), this was Gregg Araki's deliberate effort to do something a bit lighter.

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  3. #003

    This was the first Gregg Araki film for which he did not write the screenplay himself.

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  4. #004

    It was shot over a period of 22 days.

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  5. #005

    As on most of his films, Gregg Araki was the editor.

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  6. #006

    The film's working title was "Mary Warner," and at one point Winona Ryder was attached to it.

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  7. #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.

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  8. #008

    This is one of Roscoe Lee Browne's last film appearances.

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  9. #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).

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  10. #010

    Although they do not share a scene, the film features two Glee (2009) alumni: Jane Lynch and Jayma Mays.

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  11. #011

    It is Gregg Araki's ninth feature film.

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