Smile

About Smile

Smile is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Kramer.

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Smile is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Kramer.

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Plot

Katie and Lin are born on the same day but into different lifestyles: one in Malibu, California to a nuclear family that has to learn how to handle a growing teenager and the other into a single parent family in China with a teenager who was born with a facial deformity and suffers in isolationism.

Katie learns of a program, "Doctor's Gift", that provide world-wide, medical assistance to those in need. She learns about Lin.

Katie joins the program on one of its trips to China. Katie undergoes an attitude change while in China and on her own embarks to find Lin.

Lin's father, Daniel, brings Katie and Lin together. Lin is convinced to undergo surgery for her facial deformity. She is able to smile.

They both develop beyond the insularity of their particular world.

Cast

Mika Boorem as Katie

Wang Luoyong as Daniel

Beau Bridges as Steven

Cheri Oteri as Linda

Linda Hamilton as Bridget

Shuai Chi as Calvin

Jia Song as Daniel's wife

Jonathan Trent as Ted

Erik von Detten as Chris

Yi Ding as Lin

Sean Astin as Mr. Matthews

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Notable quotes

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 97.
“In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave 2.
“A sweet smile and a soft word have usually their desired effect.”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara (1834), Vol.II, Chapter 17
“She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Collected short stories 1, "The promise", p. 407
“With the smile that was childlike and bland.”
— Bret Harte, Language of Truthful James (Heathen Chinee).
“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps—does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”
— Rabindranath Tagore, , 61.

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