Eversmile, New Jersey is an Argentine and British comedy-drama film released in 1989, directed by Carlos Sorín

Carlos Sorín

Carlos Sorín is a film director, screenplay writer, cinematographer, and film producer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina....

, and written by Sorín, Jorge Goldenberg

Jorge Goldenberg

Jorge Goldenberg Hachero is a prolific screenwriter from Argentina.Jorge Goldenberg was born in San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941.He studied film direction at the Film Institute of the National University of the Litoral in Santa Fe....

, and Roberto Scheuer.

The film stars Daniel Day Lewis as dentist

Dentist

A dentist, also known as a 'dental surgeon', is a doctor that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aides in providing oral health services...

 Dr. Fergus O'Connell. Eversmile, New Jersey premiered on September 11, 1989 at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

.

Plot

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe Awards for the latter...

 stars as Fergus O'Connell, an itinerant Irish dentist, offering his services free-of-charge to the rural Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 population.

He's able to do this because of the supposedly no-strings sponsorship of a "dental consciousness" foundation. While his motorbike is being repaired, O'Connell falls in love with Estela (Mirjana Joković

Mirjana Jokovic

Mirjana Joković is a Serbian film and stage actress, best known for her role as Natalija Zovkov in Underground, the film of Emir Kusturica...

), the garage-owner's daughter.

Both lovers have prior commitment: he is married, and she is engaged. Yet, they go off together all the same. After a series of surrealistic adventures, O'Connell discovers that there's a subliminal price tag attached to his altruistic free services.

Background

Among the historic dentists cited, Dubois de Chemant is said to have invented porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and...

 teeth in 1792. He invented them in 1789.

Cast

• Daniel Day Lewis as Dr. Fergus O'Connell
• Mirjana Joković
  Mirjana Jokovic
  Mirjana Joković is a Serbian film and stage actress, best known for her role as Natalija Zovkov in Underground, the film of Emir Kusturica...
  
   as Estela
• Gabriela Acher as Celeste
• Ignacio Quirós as The 'Boss'
• Boy Olmi as Radio Announcer
• Eduardo D'Angelo as Manager
• Alberto Benegas as Sheriff
• Roberto Catarineu as López
• Miguel Dedovich as Brother Conrad
• Miguel Ligero
  Miguel Ligero
  Miguel Ligero was a film actor from Argentina.Ligero was born in 1911 in Rosario, Santa Fe, and died on 1 February 1989 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.-Films:Miguel Ligero appeared in the following films:...
  
   as Brother Felix
• José María Rivara as Gangster
• Vando Villamil as Gangster
• Alejandro Escudero as Brother Segundo
• Rubén Patagonia as Butler

Awards

Wins

• Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival: Prize San Sebastián; Best Actress, Mirjana Jokovic; 1989.