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Laura Smiles

09/22/2006

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1hr 38min

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Drama

She lives in the present ... she loves in the past

STORY

"Laura Smiles" is an alarmingly effective portrait of a woman's mental breakdown. We are introduced to "Laura" at her happiest time, in a warm, loving relationship with her fiancé (a very appealing Kip Pardue) in the city, literally the love of her life. In flashbacks, we then see the sweet development of this relationship out of order as these moments become brightly lit and colored memories that desperately intrude on her later in life, as she becomes consumed with guilt and remorse over his fate. These feelings start to overwhelm her current life as a wife and mother. As something inconsequential in what she calls her "suburban drudgery" triggers the past -- in the supermarket, cooking, cleaning, at a school play-- she acts out increasingly aberrantly to counteract the feelings they generate, especially when she can no longer distinguish past from present from dreams, recalling Blanche Du Bois.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Petra Wright
  • Mark Derwin
  • Kip Pardue
  • Jonathan Silverman
  • Ted Hartley

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    Petra Wright

    Laura

    Mark Derwin

    Mark

    Kip Pardue

    Chris

    Jonathan Silverman

    Paul

    Ted Hartley

    Therapist

    Stephen Sowan

    Billy

    Scott Chernoff

    Emperor

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