While "Smile" concerns itself with a beauty pageant, the weak plot here gives way to two interesting sub-plots. Bruce Dern, a pageant director, has a precocious son who takes pictures of the female contestants in the raw. After he is caught doing this, he goes off to the psychiatrist in a bit that could have even been funnier.
Barbara Feldon co-stars in this film as a former contest winner who is assigned to work with the contestants. Her constant saying of dear is annoying at best, but with her phony smile, she is hiding a bad marriage to a guy who eventually takes a shot at her.
All this being said, the plot about the pageant itself is downright ridiculous. The talent part is ridiculous and you know you've got trouble when you hear "Oy Vey!" after a girl's rendition of second hand Rose. Even Barbra Streisand would have been up in arms.
Barbara Feldon co-stars in this film as a former contest winner who is assigned to work with the contestants. Her constant saying of dear is annoying at best, but with her phony smile, she is hiding a bad marriage to a guy who eventually takes a shot at her.
All this being said, the plot about the pageant itself is downright ridiculous. The talent part is ridiculous and you know you've got trouble when you hear "Oy Vey!" after a girl's rendition of second hand Rose. Even Barbra Streisand would have been up in arms.