I ended Friday with the very silly "Smiley Face."
Anna Faris plays Jane, an out of work actress and pot head who is living off residuals and unemployment. One morning, stoned to the gills, she eats some cupcakes that her roommate has told her not to touch. The cupcakes are loaded with pot. Realizing how stoned she is she makes a list along these lines:
1. Buy more pot
2. Go to audition
3. Buy supplies to make more cupcakes
4. Pay the electric bill
Her dealer shows up at the door and she buys more pot, with the cash for the electric bill which isn't enough but she'll pay her dealer back that afternoon. That's ok, she'll just stop by the ATM after the audition and have to buy even more pot since she ruins the first purchase when she's trying to make the cupcakes.
She makes it to the audition, late, but after that everything else goes wrong until she finds herself at point Z - a Ferris wheel on the pier at Venice Beach.
The movie is silly, the premise sillier. I didn't expect anything more. I was delighted Anna Faris and her supporting staff are all very funny and likable (except the roommate - but we aren't supposed to like him). Unlike so many comedies the pace of the movie never drags and even the old jokes feel fresh. It isn't high art (no pun intended) but "Smiley Face" is good fun.
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