Desc: Nickel City Smiler: Directed by Scott Murchie, Brett Williams. With Smiler Greely, Moe Joe, Donna Pepero. Forced to flee their homeland because of the brutal Burmese military dictatorship and a decades old civil war, Nickel City Smiler follows a refugee's struggle for hope and the American dream amidst discrimination, poverty and violence in one of the United State's poorest cities.