2008 Films

Plastic surgeon and cancer survivor Dr. S. Dicksheet spends six months of every year performing cleft lip surgeries for free in his native India, where he is revered as a god. (At last count, he had completed an astonishing 140,000 surgeries.) The rest of the year, this wine-tippling, lottery-playing, Mother-Teresa-dissing, eight-time Nobel Prize nominee and self-described chick magnet lives on social security and Chinese take-out in a mouse-infested Brooklyn apartment, where he raises money for his charitable work. Like the good doctor himself, this stunning film pulls no punches as it relates the sometimes hilarious and always bizarre survival saga of this utterly enthralling “Saint of Smiles.” MP