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Plot Summary
A dreamlike portrait of adolescence unfolds over one hot, hazy summer, as two young brothers must come to terms with a friend's mysterious death.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
82%- Reviews Counted: 44
- Fresh: 36
- Rotten: 8
- Average Rating: 7.1/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: "Hide Your Smiling Faces" conveys life as the boys experience it: a pungent mixture of boredom, curiosity, fear and mischievousness, along with an anxious sense of being trapped.
Fresh: Narratively oblique yet emotionally acute.
Fresh: Patrick Carbone's arresting debut confronts mortality as its young characters do, obliquely and with confused emotions embodied convincingly by child actors Ryan Jones and Nathan Varnson.
Rotten: [It] focuses on unspoken adolescent feelings instead of familiar puerile events, with cliches held at arm's length. Unfortunately, Hide Your Smiling Faces is so slow it could use a few action sequences to speed things up.
Customer Reviews
Hide Your Smiling Faces
One of the best films about the loneliness of adolescence within a family I have ever seen.
wow!!!
this is one of the best movies i have seen all year! impeccable storytelling and absolutely stunning to watch. recommending to all my friends - a gut-wrenching yet poignant coming of age movie. must see
Gut wrentching and inspiring
One of the best coming of age movies in recent memory, Hide your smiling faces is a masterful portal of trying to grow up in a confusing world. Where everything is seemingly falling apart. A friends tragic and meaningless death sets off a series of events that help the kids of the small town learn to cope with what life throws at them am carry on. Learning what it means to grow up.
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