| Smile Orange | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 23071
Category: DVD
Actors: Carl Bradshaw, Vaughn Crosskill, Stanley Irons, Glenn Morrison
Director: Trevor D. Rhone
Publisher: Video Music, Inc.
Studio: Video Music, Inc.
Manufacturer: Video Music, Inc.
Label: Video Music, Inc.
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 86 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MVDDV0948D
UPC: 805764009487
EAN: 0805764009487
ASIN: B0006N2EFA
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Description
"Smile Orange" is set in a beach hotel and pokes fun at the tourist trade in Jamaica at both the visitors and the Jamaicans. "Smile Orange" is mostly the story of the slick waiter, super stud, Ringo , who has made a profitable art of servility. Directed
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 Good to add to your Jamaican entertainment collection December 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was definitely a 70s movie. It was funny at times. Good to add to your Jamaican movie collection.
 Brnman March 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with what was said by all the other reviewers here, except I took offense at what the reviewer called 'Kali "Bengaligirl" from UK said in describing one of the character in the film. Kali described her as an 'ugly wife'. The woman in question was not ugly in my opinion. Just because she was dark skinned, and had features of a person of African descent, doesn't make her ugly.
Nostalgic pleasure! August 10, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love Smile Orange! This movie always makes me laugh and takes me back to my adolescent days in late 70's Jamaica. The movie has a weak plot, farcical situations and cliche characters - but I still love it! Oscar-worthy it was not. But it's full of slapstick humor and belly-busting laughs! I give it 2 thumbs up just for the nostalgic element. Carl Bradshaw is always hilarious.
You don't need to know patois to watch this movie April 4, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was made in the 1970s but it can still make me laugh even now. Taking the mickey out of the tourist industry and how Jamaican men are happily seduced by White women and Jamaican girls are desperate to get over to America and will sleep with American tourists in order to realize their dream you are treated to a funny, sardonic look at beach life on the golden sands of the Jamaican coast.
This is a hysterically funny film with Carl Bradshaw playing the cheeky conman Ringo who goes to work in a hotel and gets up to all sorts of tricks, in a bid to avoid his angry wife and the hotel manager who lives for respectability but isn't averse to being a secret letch.
Look out for the scene where the young Bus boy is seduced by an older American Woman, you will bust a gut laughing,the rolling in poison ivy scene where Ringo makes it clear to a girl he has picked up, if she don't put out, she will end walking to town, and the most memorable scene of all, the drowning tourist where Ringo accidentally becomes a hero, along with the angry ugly wife who turns up and demands to see her wayward husband, the dastardly but very charming Ringo himself.
A great soundtrack, that sums up the film which lampoons society in a way in which only a 1970s film could do.
A gem of a film that has aged disgracefully. Wonderful.
One of the greatest films from Jamaica September 15, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The first time I saw Smile Orange I was 10 years old (I'm 30 now), my mother and I brought it from our local Jamaican record shop. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. The cast is wonderful and I am sure you will find Ceril the bus boy sweet and funny...just remember "Plate" and you will see what I am talking about. Buy this movie and let Ringo, Joe and Ceril take you on a wild ride!
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