Hide Your Smiling Faces

Synopsis: After a neighborhood tragedy, two adolescent brothers confront changing relationships, the mystery of nature, and their own mortality. Hide Your Smiling Faces is an atmospheric exploration of rural American life through the often distorted lens of youth.
Genre: Drama
Production: Tribeca Film
  8 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
81 min
Website
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- Come on.

- It's gonna hit my head.

I'm scared.

Looks like it's clearing up.

Eric, stop.

- Say mercy.

- Mercy!

That's not how you play.

You go like this.

And then you go like this.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

Oh, no. Say mercy.

Say it. Say mercy.

I'm not gonna.

No, no, no! Okay, mercy, mercy.

- Oh!

- This place is weird.

You can say that again.

Hmm.

Bleh!

Just imagine if you

had to live in here.

- Who do you think lives in here?

- Probably, nobody anymore.

There are holes in the wall.

Yeah, dude.

Whoa!

Guys.

Oh, do you smell that?

It stinks.

- What's with the sound effects?

- Well...

It sounds like a bird falling

from the sky or something.

Yeah, it sounds like a rock,

it doesn't sound like a bird.

Birds are more like this.

Well, maybe a dead

bird sounds like...

What about the last sound effect?

That's like a missile.

Sing all the song of the song

It's the song of the song of the song

With a friend

And the dead bird

I'm a little black

bird an awesome bird

A little black bird

I'm not little my friend and me

The friend and the bird

the friend and the bird

The dead little black bird,

my friend and me

It's like in the walls there's

spiders, like, all over.

Ew!

You're getting spiders on your hand.

No. Don't play with me.

Are you serious?

This is nasty. Just...

Just spiders all over.

Oh, my God.

I'm gonna break through the wall.

Oh, God.

Oh, there's a whole bunch

of spiders in there.

That's nasty.

There's, like, one right there.

Oh, watch your head. There really is.

I killed it for you.

See, I just saved your life.

What would you do without me?

Ian, what is that thing?

Guys, I have to show you something.

Mercy, mercy, mercy.

Guys.

Guys.

You have to promise not

to tell anybody about this.

About what?

Oh!

Cool, right?

Hey, don't. Don't. Give me it.

Come on.

Stop! It's my dad's.

Give me it. Let go.

- Give me the gun.

- Ian!

- Where's it?

- He's coming. Hide it.

Hey! You. Get over here.

Come here, you.

You two, stay there.

Did you take that out of my shed?

Dad, I'm...

Did you load it?

Don't lie to me. Did you load it?

You should know better. You f***ing

know you should know better.

Get lost. Go cry in the woods.

You two, get the f*** out of here

and don't say anything to anybody.

Ian!

Justin Jones,

in one minute and 13 seconds

and that will make

the score 15 to 13,

Kittatinny in front of high point.

Franklin Sussex Honda sports beat.

Let's take a commercial time out.

What are you doing? Get out.

- Come on.

- Come on, guys. You got this.

- Connor, put him on the ground.

- Yeah.

- Let's go. Take him down.

- Oh, you suck.

- Come on, Colin.

- Pin him. Come on. Pin him.

- Come on.

- Take him down, go on.

- Take him to his back.

- Colin, fight.

Let's go. Come on.

Come on. Get it over with.

- Come on. Hit him.

- Take him down.

- Oh.

- Yeah.

Colin, you suck.

- Who's next?

- Eric and Tristan. Get there.

Let's go. Oh, let's go.

- Tristan, come on, man.

- Come on, take him down.

Come on, Tristan.

Get it over with. Pin him.

Stop backing off.

You gotta get out of that,

you gotta get out of that...

Oh. Nice.

- Good job, Eric.

- There you go.

- You all right, man?

- Yeah.

- Let's go. Nice.

- What are you waiting for?

- That was a nice one.

- Come on, go after it.

- You gonna finish it?

- Come on, Chris.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- How are you?

- Great. What can I get you?

A cheeseburger and...

- Do you have lemonade?

- Yes.

- Okay, a large lemonade.

- Okay.

- It's $4.50.

- All right.

There's $5.

Thanks.

Oh. Hey!

What the f***? I paid for that.

I'll get you another one. Oh.

Um, sorry.

Come on, Eric.

Eric, what are you doing? Come on.

Oh.

Sh*t.

Isn't that your brother's friend?

I'm sorry.

What's so funny?

Look at your brother.

You look at him.

Are you okay?

Do you wanna talk about Ian, honey?

No.

Can I go to sleep?

Okay.

Do you want me to get the light?

Sure.

Hi, my name is Courtney

and I went to school with

Ian ever since I was little.

Ian was a very nice boy.

He was always there to help.

One day, we were taking a math test

and my pencil broke,

so he gave me his.

Also in gym class once,

we were playing dodgeball

and I got hit in the arm.

He came over just to

make sure I was okay.

I can't remember one time

that he was mean to me.

I miss Ian very much and

I know that his dad

must be really sad right now,

and I hope he feels better soon.

I hope that we all keep,

Ian's dad in our prayers.

And in our hearts.

And I just know that he's going

through a really tough time

I guess it's a...

Hard time for you, right?

Well, you need to know that...

The lord has a plan.

The lord has a plan for Ian.

You know that, right?

- Excuse me?

- He wanted this to happen?

Did I want it to happen?

- He, the lord.

- Oh, the lord.

Well, he works in mysterious ways.

And he has a plan for, bigger than any

of us could ever possibly understand.

And sometimes things happen that...

You know, life's just tough.

No, the lord didn't want him to die.

But he did die.

He guides and protects us all,

so he was protecting Ian.

You need to know that, young man.

God bless you, sir. Good night.

You too, Paul. Thank you

so much for coming.

He's with the lord now, son.

Don't you worry.

- Hi. Um...

- If this dog gets on my property again...

I'll f***ing shoot it, okay?

Bad doggy.

Hey, man, wanna go for a ride?

I used to hate it when the

water turned cold all of a sudden.

Because when I was little,

that's where I used to think

all the monsters were.

Do you ever think about dying?

What?

Like dying, someone killing you,

or you killing yourself.

No, not really.

I do.

Why?

I don't know, I just do.

Are you sad?

Yeah, I guess, a little.

You wanna die, because you're sad?

That's dumb.

Ahh! Get off.

Whoa. Tommy, cut it out.

Daisy.

Daisy.

Daisy, what do you have?

Shh! Come here.

Come here, come here.

Holy sh*t.

Oh, my God.

Tommy, take one of them.

What?

Grab one.

An animal?

Yeah. The cat.

Trust me.

Come on, Daisy.

Let's get out of here.

Ew!

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Come on.

It's okay. It's okay,

come on. Stay in.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay, come on.

Damn.

- Do you see something?

- There's a bunny.

Give me the gun.

Give me the gun.

Let go!

Stop.

Stop.

Do you think you'll die if I shoot?

I don't know.

What if I held it to your head?

Daisy!

Daisy!

Daisy!

Daisy!

- Let's go, Eric.

- Come on, Tristan.

- Come on, go for his legs.

- Come on, Eric.

Trip him.

- Come on, Eric.

- Come on, Eric.

- Come on, Eric.

- Come on, Tristan. Pull it off.

- There you go.

- Come on.

- B*tch, pin him.

- Come on, Tristan. Pin him.

- There you go.

- Come on, Tristan, pin him.

- Who's next?

- Eric, you suck.

Here we go.

- Connor, you got this.

- Come on, Colin, beat his ass.

Go, right here. Come on, Connor.

Connor, don't let him take you down.

You coming in?

Come on, it's not that deep.

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