A Smile Like Yours (1997)

Greg Kinnear plays a carriage-shy husband in a romantic comedy about a couple trying to conceive a child.

Director:

Keith Samples

Writers:

Kevin Meyer, Keith Samples

Stars:

Greg Kinnear, Lauren Holly, Joan Cusack

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Greg Kinnear	...	Danny Robertson
Lauren Holly	...	Jennifer Robertson
Joan Cusack	...	Nancy Tellen
Jay Thomas	...	Steve Harris
Jill Hennessy	...	Lindsay Hamilton
Christopher McDonald	...	Richard Halstrom
Donald Moffat	...	Dr. Felber
France Nuyen	...	Dr. Chin
Marianne Muellerleile	...	Nurse Wheeler
Sheridan Samples	...	Holly
Barbara Larsen	...	Woman in Window / Woman on Plane
Tony Abou-Ganim	...	Welder
Nick Scoggin	...	Welder
Gene Nakashita	...	Karaoke Bar Owner
Lewis Brown	...	Karaoke Act 1

Storyline

A childless couple attempting to conceive discover that his sperm are "lazy". Several trips to a fertility clinic prove fruitless. Also, the wife had surreptitiously quit taking the pill and provided her doctor with a sperm sample before the husband agreed to start trying to have a baby. The deception alienates the husband for a time. To compound things, a female architect has the hots for the husband and lures him out of town on business at exactly the wrong time.

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Plot Keywords:

box office bomb | fertility clinic | mortician | elevator | wanting a baby | 

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Taglines:

The shortest distance between two people is a certain smile.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some sex-related material

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Cantonese Japanese

Release Date:

22 August 1997 (USA)

Also Known As:

Una sonrisa como la tuya

Filming Locations:

Alameda, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$18,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,163,576, 24 August 1997

Gross USA:

$3,330,352

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$3,330,352

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Greg Kinnear and Lauren Holly previously starred together in Sabrina (1995), a remake of Sabrina (1954) which starred Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

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Quotes

Jay Thomas: The only time I can count as a threesome is when I use two hands.

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Connections

References One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

User Reviews

nothing funny

In San Francisco, Danny Robertson (Greg Kinnear) and his wife Jennifer (Lauren Holly) are happily married except they disagree on having a baby. Steve Harris (Jay Thomas) is his best friend and works for him on his construction site. Lindsay Hamilton (Jill Hennessy) is the hot new architect. Jennifer runs a perfume shop with her best friend Nancy Tellen (Joan Cusack).

Nothing is truly offensive but this is terribly flat like the couple's singing. It's meant to be funny but it's just mildly annoying. Neither Kinnear nor Holly are real comedians. They could be good if the comedic material is great. That's not this movie. The material is not close to being funny. Maybe if one of them is played by a good comedian. The jokes are barely jokes even if they're performed perfectly. This has the comedic roadmap but lacks the funny bone to write the jokes. It has the structure but not the stuffing to fill it out. It doesn't help that fertility is not automatically funny and the writing has nothing funny for it.