Smiley Face

• Comedy

A relentlessly escalating day spirals out of control for a perpetually-high actress as a simple craving for marijuana triggers a series of increasingly bizarre and paranoid misadventures across Los Angeles. Beyond a typical stoner comedy, the film leans into a disorienting, almost hallucinatory narrative, mimicking the subjective experience of an intense high with fragmented flashbacks and a consistently off-kilter perspective. It’s a deeply unfocused—and intentionally so—exploration of desire and the lengths one will go to satisfy an immediate need, resulting in a chaotic yet strangely mesmerizing freefall through a sun-drenched, perpetually-shifting urban landscape.