Murky and humorless.
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03/01/07
Happy Here and Now (2002)
45 %
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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... [More]
Starring: Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Ally Sheedy, Gloria Reuben
Director: Michael Almereyda
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Reviews for Happy Here and Now
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The film is resolutely committed to its affectations of deepness and meaningfulness, but all it imparts is a sense of tediousness.
02/08/06
Casts an undeniable and lingering spell for those who enjoy their cinema spiked with adventure and philosophy.
12/16/05
The future is quieter, emotionally subdued and grayly mysterious, at least in the small hop forward imagined by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
12/16/05
Top CriticEven if you're not quite down with Almereyda's digital-age existentialism, he has impeccable taste in music.
12/16/05
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.
12/16/05
Top CriticMichael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years.
12/16/05
Top CriticMichael 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.
12/16/05
Top CriticA bit too mannered to engage.
12/15/05
Top CriticMourning and gloom weigh upon most of the characters in Michael Almereyda's convoluted and numbingly pretentious Happy Here and Now
12/15/05
Top CriticThis small masterpiece has been one of the best films around not to secure a proper theatrical release.
12/15/05
Top CriticSet 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.
12/14/05
Top CriticThe dialogue is much like a bull session in a college dorm room, right before the munchies set in.
12/14/05
When Amelia takes the full multimedia plunge in the movie's final moments, Happy becomes something inexplicably (and metaphysically) beautiful.
12/13/05
Top CriticA rich kaleidoscope of sights and sounds that sing out in their vitality.
12/11/05
Almereyda is tripped up by this grab at cosmic profundity, and lands in a sticky puddle of pretension.
12/06/05
To make an inexact analogy, 'Happy Here and Now' is to New Orleans as 'Mystery Train' was to Memphis...
10/27/03
While technically brilliant and gorgeous to watch, Happy Here and Now feels as unfocused and uneven as it is ambitious and intellectually frustrating.
04/27/03
The film transcends what occasionally seems to be oddness for its own sake.
02/16/03
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