Laney (Sarah Silverman) is the perfect wife to Bruce (Josh Charles) and the perfect mom to Eli (Skylar Gaertner) and Janey (Shayne Coleman). She’s a nurturing, loving woman, but she’s also got a raging addiction to anything in sight: sugar, booze, pills, coke, sex, anything she can get her hands on. It’s clear that as much love as she has for her kids (and Silverman has great chemistry with them), there are also deep wells of rage within her that send her into flaming-out downward spirals. Silverman plays Laney with a dead-eyed, twitchy ferocity, and her performance is at once horrifying in its reality and morbidly compelling in her rampant self-destructiveness. Read More: Sarah Silverman Self-Destructs In First Trailer For Acclaimed Sundance Drama 'I Smile Back' At first, "I Smile Back" feels a bit like a very well-shot episode of “Intervention,” and the inciting incident...
- 10/23/2015
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Sarah Silverman drew all eyes in a sexy low-cut dress at the La premiere of I Smile Back on Wednesday. The comedian, who was joined by the film's director, Adam Salky, and her costars Shayne Coleman and Mia Barron, turned heads on the red carpet while striking poses for the cameras. In the movie, which is based on a novel from author Amy Koppelman, Sarah takes on her first dramatic role as a married mother who's hit rock bottom due to drug and alcohol abuse. Read on for more of Sarah's sizzling night out, then check out the trailer for I Smile Back, which hits theaters on Oct. 23.
- 10/22/2015
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
Laney (Sarah Silverman) is the perfect wife to Bruce (Josh Charles) and perfect mom to Eli (Skylar Gaertner) and Janey (Shayne Coleman). She’s a nurturing, loving woman, but she’s also got a raging addiction to anything in sight: sugar, booze, pills, coke, sex, literally anything she can get her hands on. It’s clear that as much love as she has for her kids (and Silverman has great chemistry with them), there are also deep wells of rage within her that send her into flaming-out downward spirals. Silverman plays Laney with a dead-eyed, twitchy ferocity, and her performance is at once horrifying in its reality and morbidly compelling in her rampant self-destructiveness. At first, "I Smile Back" feels a bit like a very well-shot episode of “Intervention,” and the inciting incident that eventually sends her to rehab is rather ridiculous, but boy, does Silverman sell it. The majority...
- 1/26/2015
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
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