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title: Paramount Pictures Turns Grins Grim with Parker Finn’s Gruesome ‘Smile’
description: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
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# [Paramount Pictures Turns Grins Grim with Parker Finn’s Gruesome ‘Smile’](https://greenslate.com/blog/paramount-pictures-smile)

 Written by [GreenSlate](https://greenslate.com/blog/author/greenslate) | Oct 24, 2022 1:39:38 PM

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

 

**Directed by:  
**Parker Finn

 

**Writing credits:  
**Parker Finn (screenplay by)

 

**Produced by:  
**Marty Bowen - producer  
Adam Fishbach - executive producer  
Wyck Godfrey - producer  
Isaac Klausner - producer  
Robert Salerno - producer

 

**Starring:  
**Sosie Bacon  
Jessie T. Usher  
Kyle Gallner  
Robin Weigert  
Caitlin Stasey  
with Kal Penn  
and Rob Morgan

 

**In the Media:**

> “A relentlessly somber, precision-tooled picture whose frights only reinforce the wit of its premise, “Smile” turns our most recognizable sign of pleasure into a terrifying rictus of pain.” 
> 
> - [Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/movies/smile-review.html)

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