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I SMILE BACK (ON DEMAND)

I SMILE BACK (ON DEMAND)

Sarah Silverman’s sterling performance cannot rescue this sophomorically written, unquestionably pointless film.

“Laney Brooks” (Silverman) living a lovely life with a worshipful  husband “Bruce” (blandly depicted by Josh Charles) and two spectacular children; celestially- addicted, anorexic, unfaithful; her life is one destructive, masochistic moment after another. Questioning whether something atrocious happened in her primary years, either before or after her father left; when we meet the “dad”, he seems like a nice enough fellow, minimally flawed.

Baring witness, never gaining insight as to why she consciously chooses to ditch a sanitary, charmed existence for drugged days and nights, wallowing in the detritus of the doomed; devilishly devoted to the art of self- flagellation.

“I Smile Back” is a bleak, empty, manipulative vehicle for Silverman to hone her acting initiatives, testing the endurance of an unsmiling audience.

ONE & 1/2 STARS!

Peneflix

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