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...
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