3 things about Michael Ritchie’s SMILE

Smile [1975]

1. “Another night of sarcasm and self-pity.” She opens the freezer. Cut to a stack of TV dinners.
2. The girl sings the end of a song. Big, big, flashy braces. She finishes with an off-key coda on her saxophone.
3. Bruce Dern grabs the pregnant lady around the middle and says to her husband, “I’m thinking October?”

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