"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.
Laura Smiles has generally received mixed reviews.
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Laura Smiles was released in 2006 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 17 reviews, giving Laura Smiles (2006) an average rating of 57%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 54%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Laura Smiles than critics were.
With a score of 57%, Laura Smiles is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2006, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2006 with similar scores include films like Miami Vice, Snakes on a Plane and John Tucker Must Die.
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