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Happy Endings

2005

Don Roos

Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Laura Dern ...

5.8

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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"The narrative sprawls without achieving depth and carries the additional burden of featuring only two or three interesting characters out of 10 candidates."	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"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. "	POS
United States	Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times	"Why aren't there more American movies like this? I mean smart, unpretentious, sophisticated, un-condescending and cheap."	POS
United States	Jack Mathews New York Daily News	"The themes are about the power and consequences of sex, but the stories are too glib and episodic to leave any impression"	NEU
United States	Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle	"'Happy Endings' is unabashedly sentimental, with Roos acting as a sort of benevolent god over his characters"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	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.	NEU
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Complicated? Yes. Potentially heavy? Sure. But it's also highly engrossing and, in a dark way, ultimately rather sweet"	POS

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