The Joy of Positivity: Smiley Face (2007)
Not all stoner movies are lazy or bad.
Bad boy auteur Gregg Araki shocked critics and audiences alike with his masterful adaptation of Scott Heim’s novel The Mysterious Skin. It’s a delicate mood piece about two young men who deal with molestation in very different ways. One becomes a hustler selling his youth and beauty to anyone interested while the other escapes deeper and deeper into fantasy.
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