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Good performances but a muddled script
HAPPY ENDINGS, in a nutshell, is one of those loosely constructed "hip" stories that intertwines various quirky characters in various stories...with varying degrees of overlapping. It tries hard to be "adult" and edgy and "true."
As others have indicated, HAPPY ENDINGS just has a few TOO...
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Happy Endings
Warning: There may seem like major spoilers here, but nothing is really given away that you won't learn within the first 20 minutes or so. Still, there are some spoilers and if you don't want to know anything, move on.
Ahem. Mamie's mother just married Charley's father. On moving day,...
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Sappy title for an unsappy movie
Happy Endings surprised me. I knew very little about it when I requested it from Netflix, but I was pretty much expecting a fluff flick; I was pleasantly disappointed.
Happy Endings is an ensemble piece divided into three major plotlines that intersect tangentially. Imagine the structure...
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How can a movie about liars, cheaters, and abortion be called Happy Endings?
Happy Endings is a very misogynistic movie about liars, cheaters, and abortion. It's one of those films with multiple running plot lines that all interconnect at the end. It stars Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford, Laura Dern, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. It is not a... Read full review »
Make an appointment for a massage instead
It seems that the first decade of the 21st century is to the ensemble cast, entwined lives, parallel storyline, chaos theory film as the 1980's were to the ensemble cast, entwined lives, single storyline coming-of-age film. "Happy Endings" is a weak entry into the group.
Former star of...
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Everybody Wants Happy Endings (5th Anniversary Review)
Amidst the quirkiness of the 1990s new wave of indie sex films, no one made a stranger film than Don Roos in 1998 with his debut feature The Opposite of Sex starring Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, and Lisa Kudrow. The film was widely acclaimed while Roos was deemed to be a promising new... Read full review »
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Happy Endings [VHS]
It's a comedy, sort of, a title card announces at the start of Happy Endings--just after Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) has been hit by a car. So it is, but talk about an unhappy beginning! Never fear, writer/director Don Roos will fulfill the promise of that title in several unexpected ways. The story then flashes back to 1983 for Mamie's life-altering encounter with her stepbrother. Mamie and Charley (Steve Coogan) will struggle with its consequences for the rest of the film. Does her teen pregnancy explain the fact that she became an abortion counselor or that he came out of the closet? Roos doesn't say, but nor does he judge. He loves his characters-- foibles and all--in his ambitious, Altman-esque follow-up to the acerbic, yet heartfelt The Opposite of Sex. As before, Kudrow is the center around which the other plotlines revolve (and her uptight, yet likable Mamie couldn't resemble TV’s Phoebe less). In the end, though, Maggie Gyllenhaal's seductive Jude and Tom Arnold's sensitive Frank are Roos' most inspired creations. Their relationship is one of contemporary cinema's oddest and most touching. The happy ending for one will be real, the other imaginary, but everyone will earn the one they get. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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