Smile

[Available on various VOD platforms.] After her smiling, distraught, graduate student patient (Caitlin Stasey) commits suicide in her office in New Jersey in Parker Finn's gripping, eerie, taut, intense, bizarre, unpredictable, 115-minute thriller based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn't Slept, a scared psychiatrist (Sosie Bacon) begins to see a frightening, sinister entity (Marti Matulis) and tries desperately to get her therapist (Robin Weigert), her boss (Kal Penn), a manic patient Carl (Jack Sochet), her fiancé (Jessie T. Usher), a police detective and ex-boyfriend (Kyle Gallner), her sister (Gillian Zinser), and brother in-law (Nick Arapoglou) to believe her and to understand what she is experiencing, and then she discovers that the only way to stop the murder-suicide cycle is to kill someone in front of a witness.
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