Director Alexandre Franchi’s award-winning thriller Happy Face hits theaters and digital this January. The film, featuring Robin L’Homeau, Alison Midstokke, E.R. Ruiz, Debbie Lynch-White, and Dean Perseo, is a powerful and thrilling story exploring the importance of facial equality and representation.
Estranged from his manipulative cancer-stricken mother, Stan, a quixotic 19-year-old, dons a disguise and joins a therapy workshop for disfigured patients in a misguided attempt to reconnect with her. But when his deception is revealed, Stan, who is desperate to gain coping skills to care for his disease-ravaged mother, offers the afflicted patients a bargain: he stays with the group, and in exchange, he teaches them how to feel good about themselves, using their “ugliness” as a weapon against our beauty-obsessed culture.
The film, from Dark Star Pictures, featuring music from the Violent Femmes & more gets its release in virtual theaters on January 1st and on digital January 5th.
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