Hide Your Smiling Faces

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Hide Your Smiling Faces

2014,

1h 20m,

Drama

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85%

48 Reviews

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56%

500+ Ratings

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85%

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48 Reviews

56%

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500+ Ratings

Tommy (Ryan Jones) and Eric (Nathan Varnson) spend their summer days having fun until death enters their lives.

Critics Consensus

Its meditative pace and low-key approach may prove too ponderous for some, but Hide Your Smiling Faces will cast a potent spell on viewers patient enough to let it unfold.

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Amy Taubin

Film Comment Magazine

Aug 29, 2019

Hide Your Smiling Faces is remarkable for the dread it keeps at a slow simmer from the first shot to the last.

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Jonathan Romney

Observer (UK)

Aug 4, 2014

4/5

Expect Daniel Patrick Carbone to have an illustrious career. And even if he doesn't, he's given us one perfectly polished jewel here.

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

Aug 1, 2014

4/5

Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 10, 2020

3.5/4.0

For those who have deep and meaningful experiences with bereavement, it is difficult to fathom that this film won't be an absolutely remarkable view.

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Adam Lowes

CineVue

Apr 3, 2019

3/5

While it may meander a little on occasion, the film is full of small yet hugely revealing observations regarding the trials of adolescence.

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Amanda Waltz

The Film Stage

Jun 7, 2016

B+

By showing and not telling, Carbone creates a profoundly tender work made all the more affecting by his young stars' effortless performances.

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Finn M

Feb 7, 2017

Nice and Subtle. Neatly conveyed cinematography and emotion for a slower film. While there isn't as much of a real story arch, the visual portrayal and the sharp crisp picture make this film unique for when it was released. Acting was good for the younger age with good elements of expressions and feeling. Hide Your Smiling Faces will appreciate enough younger, as well as older, audiences especially for ones that may have lived a rather tough childhood.

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Synopsis

Tommy (Ryan Jones) and Eric (Nathan Varnson) spend their summer days having fun until death enters their lives.

Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone
Producer: Daniel Patrick Carbone, Matthew Petock, Jordan Bailey-Hoover, Zachary Shedd
Screenwriter: Daniel Patrick Carbone
Distributor: Tribeca Film
Production Co: Flies Collective
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 28, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2014
Runtime: 1h 20m

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