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RELEASE DATE
7-27-2010

RUN TIME
79 min

MPAA RATING
(Not Rated),

GENRE
Documentary

STARRING

DIRECTOR(S)
Lee Storey

PRODUCER(S)
Bari Pearlman

WRITER(S)

DISTRIBUTOR

SYNOPSIS

SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS: The Up With People Story explores the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People. Since 1965, this peppy youth group has sung to 20 million people worldwide, performed at four Superbowl halftime shows, and been parodied on The Simpsons and South Park. Talent was not required of its members, just a common enthusiastic vision to change the world one squeaky-clean song at a time. But its cheery façade concealed the more complicated reality of an organization founded on conservative American ideals and cult-like utopian ideology.