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Happy Endings (2005)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:15
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Despite strong individual performances, the overlong, disjointed plot of Happy Endings self-indulgently rambles.
Theatrical Release:Jul 15, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $1,172,987
Synopsis: Mamie is being blackmailed. This filmmaker named Nick claims to know Mamie’s son – the one she gave up for adoption – but Nick won’t introduce her to him unless he can film the reunion. Enter... [More]
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter, Laura Dern
Director: Don Roos
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Reviews for Happy Endings
Top CriticIntriguing but overlong and indulgent, the work of a writer too in love with his characters.
08/11/05
Top CriticServes as a relaunching pad for the magical talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jude.
08/11/05
Top CriticRoos's movie is so aggressively pleased with itself it leaves you feeling it doesn't even need an audience.
08/05/05
Top Critic[It] feels like Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia for adolescents.
08/05/05
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07/28/05
Top CriticRoos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy.
07/28/05
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07/28/05
Top CriticThe narrative sprawls without achieving depth and carries the additional burden of featuring only two or three interesting characters out of 10 candidates.
07/28/05
Top CriticThe film isn't engaging enough to hold the average viewer's attention for its full two-plus hour running length.
07/28/05
Top CriticWriter/director Don Roos has fashioned a funny though sometimes bleak and cynical black comedy, with multiple storylines that sometimes connect in jarring fashion.
07/18/05
Top CriticHappy Endings is the kind of self-conscious puzzle picture in which characters behave in ways that serve the plot but in no way resemble things that actual human beings would be likely to do.
07/15/05
Top CriticComplicated? Yes. Potentially heavy? Sure. But it's also highly engrossing and, in a dark way, ultimately rather sweet.
07/15/05
Top CriticWhat's so splendid about Happy Endings is the very fact that it fits into no genre whatsoever and at no time while watching it can you say, oh, probably this is going to happen.
07/15/05
Top CriticHappy Endings, its interwoven stories exploring the consequences of sex and the ramifications of procreation, is mildly thought-provoking without using heavy-handed commentary.
07/15/05
Top CriticExtremely pleasurable and well worth seeing.
07/15/05
Top CriticYou get the feeling a script is a bit beyond itself when words constantly appear on the screen explaining biographies, plot twists and such, and Roos depends on a constant parade of such explanations in Happy Endings.
07/15/05
Top CriticHappy Endings has nothing new to say -- and takes way too long not to say it.
07/15/05
Top CriticHeartfelt but dark comedy.
07/15/05
Top CriticMr. Roos obviously enjoys directing actors and knows how to relate to them. But Happy Endings suggests he needs a stronger touch when it comes to his own self-indulgence as writer and director.
07/15/05
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