Another Happy Day (2011)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 17
Another Happy Day features outstanding performances (Ellen Barkin's especially) but the characters are too unpleasant to endure.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 10
Another Happy Day features outstanding performances (Ellen Barkin's especially) but the characters are too unpleasant to endure.
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A family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn (Barkin) as she arrives at her parents' Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan (Michael Nardelli), accompanied by her three younger children (Ezra Miller, Kate Bosworth, Daniel Yelsky). Lynn's hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot (Ezra Miller) lobs verbal grenades at his mother and her relatives while daughter Alice (Kate Bosworth), a
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Cast
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Ellen Barkin
Lynn -
Thomas Haden Church
Paul -
Kate Bosworth
Alice -
Demi Moore
Patty -
Ezra Miller
Elliot, Elliott -
Ellen Burstyn
Doris, Lynn's Mother -
George Kennedy
Joe, Lynn's Father -
Michael Nardelli
Dylan -
Daniel Yelsky
Ben -
Jeffrey DeMunn
Lee -
Siobhan Fallon-Hogan
Bonnie -
Diana Scarwid
Donna -
Eamon O'Rourke
Brandon -
Lola Kirke
Charlie -
David Hirsch
Tommy -
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Laura Coover
Heather -
Willy Vlasic
Taylor -
Sean Rogers
Bobby -
Patrick F. McDade
Father O'Grady -
Brian Anthony Wilson
Jason - EMT #1 -
Christopher Lee Philips
Dr. Stanwick -
Jack Hoffman
Carpenter Fred -
Daniel Usaj
Young Bartender -
April Rogalski
Bridesmaid -
Lila Vivi
Flower Girl -
Jimmie Roach
D.J. -
Corrin Barnett
D.J. Assistant -
Nick McMahon
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All Critics (31) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (17)
Levinson piles on the anguish with such abandon he never convinces you that these people would ever speak to each other, much less live under the same roof.
Top CriticCombines some of the stock elements of a family film with an extra something - a go-for-the-jugular quality, a kind of Ingmar Bergman-like honesty and viciousness that brings it up a notch.
"Another Happy Day" becomes increasingly difficult to watch, despite its intelligence and strong cast. You wish this family well, but you're grateful to see the last of them.
Sam Levinson has proven that he can get a movie made. Good for him. But he still has to prove that he has a story to tell.
If you liked Rachel Getting Married or Margot at the Wedding, you probably have good taste, so you should avoid this one.
Dislikable movie characters don't always result in dislikable movies but that's certainly the case with Sam Levinson's Another Happy Day.
The actors make the trauma in "Another Happy Day" feel real. But it's too often undercut by directorial fussiness that feels more academic than personal.
Gios toy Barry Levinson, alla mallon oxi idiaitera prosektikos mathhths toy, o Sam soy anamasaei senariografika kai soy ypobathmizei skhnothetika ola ayta ta psyxopsaxtika poy exeis synhthisei na blepeis sta aneksarthta amerikanika
...the performances of Barkin and Miller - who's getting great buzz for his work in We Need to Talk About Kevin - make it worth seeing, even in this season of Oscar-seeking dramas.
Intense, mature drama excavates too many family skeletons.
A tiresome and irritating melodrama about an extended family gathering for a wedding and showing their neurotic sides without any restraint.
Writer/director Sam Levinson isn't so much making a movie as organizing a circus
It's unpleasant, shrill and exhausting - everyone's so busy airing their own grievances no one has time to listen to anyone else's - but it's a genuine actors' film anchored by some good performances...
The movie works the audience's nerves with enough determination to get under the skin and stay there, a sensation that comes awfully close to an earned emotional response.
Even if you can relate because you're unlucky enough to have a family like this, why would you want to watch a movie about it?
Audience Reviews for Another Happy Day
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- Elliott: Death is actually a more unifying force within family than love. And that's a mind-blowing concept.
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- Alice: Oh and just so your prepared. The last time you went to rehab I told them you were in Sweden.
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- Elliot: Something happened. We thought he was dead! We have it on camera.
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