Happy Endings
903
Comedy. Drama. Romance
An ensemble cast telling 3 stories with intertwining 10 characters. One story is about a father and son who are dating the same woman. Another features a woman who long ago gave her baby up for adoption but is now being blackmailed by a documentary filmmaker who claims to know the now-grown child's whereabouts. Happy Endings is a wildly original and supremely self-conscious comedy by a filmmaker, Don Roos, who clearly embraces the ... [+]
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"The narrative sprawls without achieving depth and carries the additional burden of featuring only two or three interesting characters out of 10 candidates." | ||||
"It's possible that Maggie Gyllenhaal will never become a major star, but there isn't an American actress in movies today who holds the screen with as much deep-seated soul. " | ||||
"Why aren't there more American movies like this? I mean smart, unpretentious, sophisticated, un-condescending and cheap." | ||||
"The themes are about the power and consequences of sex, but the stories are too glib and episodic to leave any impression" | ||||
"'Happy Endings' is unabashedly sentimental, with Roos acting as a sort of benevolent god over his characters" | ||||
There aren't a lot of laughs in Happy Endings, and those that sneak in are pretty wry (...) The humor might have helped with the film's often-sluggish pacing. | ||||
"Complicated? Yes. Potentially heavy? Sure. But it's also highly engrossing and, in a dark way, ultimately rather sweet" |
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