i just purchase this movie because i love to donate to operation smile and the charity on which the movie be base . but i find the writing of the movie to be very strange . it t do not really focus so much on operation smile or similar organization like the smile train and their herculean effort to relieve the suffering of child bear with facial deformity in third world country . no and it concentrate on an american teenage volunteer and katie and whose over privileged life in malibu and california and include a mother who bring her to a doctor so that she will have birth control pill in her before she sleep with her boyfriend . what be this birth control nonsense suppose to do and titillate the audience . it 2005. i would be more surprised if in 2005 a malibu teen wasn not on birth control and and even if she be and so what and who care . contrast katie be the character of lin in china and a girl with a facial deformity who miss last year chance to get an operation and this year do not want to have one . neither character be write in such a way that the audience can really identify with and let alone understand the motivation of and either girl . on the other hand and the actor do an adequate job of try to play the bad hand they be deal by whoever write this ridiculous script . the best performance be by the gentleman playing lin father although much of his dialogue be in chinese and subtitled . operation smile deserve to be honor by a much good movie than this .