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Happy Here and Now (2002)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:9

Rotten:11

Average Rating:5.1/10

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Michael Almareda (NADJA) delivers another difficult and rewarding film that refuses to deliver on genre conventions. This time, a girl (Shalom Harlow) is missing, and her sister, Amelia (Liane... Michael Almareda (NADJA) delivers another difficult and rewarding film that refuses to deliver on genre conventions. This time, a girl (Shalom Harlow) is missing, and her sister, Amelia (Liane Balaban), is desperately trying to locate her. Former CIA agent Bill (Clarence Williams III) is helping her, and the only clue they have is on the disappeared girl's computer: a program that allows the user to chat under an assumed identity. Karl Geary, Isabel Gillies, Ally Sheedy, and David Arquette also appear in this suspenseful film that makes the most of its New Orleans location and the oddball characters the city is known for. [More]

Starring: Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Ally Sheedy, Gloria Reuben

Starring: Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Ally Sheedy, Gloria Reuben, Clarence Williams, David Arquette

Director: Michael Almereyda

Director: Michael Almereyda

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Murky and humorless.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

The film is resolutely committed to its affectations of deepness and meaningfulness, but all it imparts is a sense of tediousness.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
02/08/06
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Casts an undeniable and lingering spell for those who enjoy their cinema spiked with adventure and philosophy.

Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | comment Comment
12/16/05
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Now Playing Magazine

The future is quieter, emotionally subdued and grayly mysterious, at least in the small hop forward imagined by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
12/16/05
David Hunter
David Hunter
Hollywood Reporter
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Even if you're not quite down with Almereyda's digital-age existentialism, he has impeccable taste in music.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
12/16/05
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

This is a droll, laid-back film noir steeped in Crescent City atmosphere and music that culminates in the colliding worlds of genuine and virtual reality.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/16/05
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Michael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
12/16/05
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Michael Almereyda's futuristic mystery isn't a complete misfire, but it does leave you with the same baffled blankness that suffuses his isolated, techno-dependent characters.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
12/16/05
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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A bit too mannered to engage.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
12/15/05
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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Mourning and gloom weigh upon most of the characters in Michael Almereyda's convoluted and numbingly pretentious Happy Here and Now

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
12/15/05
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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This small masterpiece has been one of the best films around not to secure a proper theatrical release.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
12/15/05
Scott Foundas
Scott Foundas
Variety
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Set in New Orleans, this collection of loosely connected set pieces was written and directed by Michael Almereyda, who is perhaps best known for his 2000 iteration of Hamlet.

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12/14/05
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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The dialogue is much like a bull session in a college dorm room, right before the munchies set in.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
12/14/05
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

When Amelia takes the full multimedia plunge in the movie's final moments, Happy becomes something inexplicably (and metaphysically) beautiful.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
12/13/05
David Ng
David Ng
Village Voice
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A rich kaleidoscope of sights and sounds that sing out in their vitality.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
12/11/05
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine

Almereyda is tripped up by this grab at cosmic profundity, and lands in a sticky puddle of pretension.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Tim Merrill
Tim Merrill
Film Threat

To make an inexact analogy, 'Happy Here and Now' is to New Orleans as 'Mystery Train' was to Memphis...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
10/27/03
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

While technically brilliant and gorgeous to watch, Happy Here and Now feels as unfocused and uneven as it is ambitious and intellectually frustrating.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
04/27/03
Jon Alon Walz
Jon Alon Walz
Boxoffice Magazine

The film transcends what occasionally seems to be oddness for its own sake.

Full Review Source: All Movie Guide | comment Comment
02/16/03
Josh Ralske
Josh Ralske
All Movie Guide

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