Happy Endings R

Happy Endings
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item number:  3545S
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 15, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Lions Gate

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten55%

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Total Count: 108

Upright63%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 9,115
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Jul 28, 2005
There's a little fanciful magic to spread over this flighty romance on the run, or at least enough to take that hackneyed notion of the happy ending, and fashion something fresh and new.
Long Island Press
Oct 5, 2007
Rarely has a film started so brilliantly and then so willfully shot itself directly in the foot. Full Review
Film Journal International
Mar 1, 2007
Rating: 3/5 -- Intriguing but overlong and indulgent, the work of a writer too in love with his characters.
Arizona Republic
Aug 11, 2005
Serves as a relaunching pad for the magical talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jude.
Observer
Aug 11, 2005
[A] rare American movie with the edge and wisdom of the best foreign films....The movie gradually deepens as Roos interweaves multiple plot strands and a large cast of characters.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Jul 1, 2005
Rating: 2/4 -- [It] feels like Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia for adolescents.
Globe and Mail
Aug 5, 2005

Product Description:

This comedic drama from writer-director Don Roos (THE OPPOSITE OF SEX) comes packed with many unusual themes including abortion, homosexual parenting, teenage pregnancy, marrying for green cards, and the unscrupulous practice of bringing a client to orgasm at the conclusion of a massage (the "happy ending" referenced in the title). Lisa Kudrow plays the recipient of one such massage, and she later makes a video about her masseur/lover--who says he has information about a son she gave up for adoption years earlier. Meanwhile, her gay brother (Steve Coogan) suspects that his boyfriend may have given sperm to a lesbian couple (Laura Dern and Sarah Clarke) to help them have a daughter. Another thread of this intricately woven plot concerns a sexual libertine (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who seduces both a rich widower (Tom Arnold) and his closeted gay son (Jason Ritter). Amazingly, it is Arnold who manages to stand out among the ensemble cast with an endearingly vulnerable performance that lingers in the mind long after the film is over. With onscreen pop-ups relaying information about both the past and the future of the characters, the acting and the script are uniformly first-rate. Tracks by Calexico and Kid Loco comprise a lot of the great soundtrack, and Gyllenhaal's real singing voice is heard during her character's several torchy numbers.

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  • UPC: 031398183723
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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