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Love Happens (2009)

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Reviews Counted:94

Fresh:17

Rotten:77

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Love Happens is a dull, chemistry-free affair that under-utilizes its appealing leads.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] PG-13 for some language including sexual references.

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Sep 18, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $22,927,390

Synopsis: Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might... Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might finally be able to help him help himself.

Dr. Burke Ryan (Eckhart) is on the precipice of a major multimedia deal, but the therapist who asks his patients to openly confront their pain is secretly unable to take his own advice.

Eloise Chandler (Aniston) has sworn off men and decided to focus on her floral business. However, when she meets Burke at the hotel where he's speaking, there is an instant attraction. But will two people who have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love another chance?

As each struggles with the hurt of love and loss, they realize that in order to move forward, they need to let go of the past. And if they can, they'll find that, sometimes, love happens when you least expect it. --© Universal [More]

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer, Joe Anderson, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen

Director: Brandon Camp

Director: Brandon Camp
Screenwriter: Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson
Producer: Scott Stuber, Mike Thompson
Composer: Christopher Young
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Feb 2, 2010

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Is this a movie or a feature-length advertisement for Qwest? We're not just talking one product placement; this brand name is nearly omnipresent.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
09/22/09
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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10/02/09
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Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
09/25/09
Austin Chronicle

Not content with being a romcom that’s trite and shallow about love, it’s gone one step further — it’s trite and shallow about death, too.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment Comment
10/16/09
Sunday Times (UK)

The film is part romance, part drama, part Seattle travelogue, with Washington emerging as the only true winner. Along with the benefactors of the movie's copious product placements, that is.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
09/18/09
Adam Graham
Adam Graham
Detroit News

A glossy, meandering wallow of a film with personable stars and predictable storylines. Blandly forgettable even with Aniston at her most winsome.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
10/09/09
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

Love isn't inspired, it's hammered flat like Khrushchev's shoe.

Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment Comment
09/27/09
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Falls between romance and drama without really satisfying either.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
10/09/09
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
Empire Magazine

What a title. Not that this crybaby romantic drama deserves much better.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
10/09/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Bland, corny, sophomoric, unimaginative and painfully contrived with two leads who have no charisma or chemistry together. [It's] a great cure for insomnia.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
09/18/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

Every situation in the movie is obvious; the foreshadowing is so blatantly telegraphed you'd think the film was produced by Western Union.

Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
09/30/09
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Attractively shot but dramatically inert, this isn’t persuasive enough to qualify as a tearjerker, and neither does it work as a substantive comedy.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
09/17/09
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Screen International

Could love happen? Melodrama certainly does.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
09/24/09
Brett Michel
Brett Michel
Boston Phoenix

Excise the love story, and there's a pretty good movie buried within Love Happens struggling to get out, mostly to little avail.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/17/09
Brian Lowry
Brian Lowry
Variety
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Hiring irritating actors Judy Greer and Dan Fogler to play buddy roles in Happens is a terrific way to state to the audience that filmmakers have little to no imagination, looking to the routine and the tiresome to squeak by

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment 2 Comments
09/18/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

This romantic-comedy is the kind of cloying, saccharine-saturated date movie that only the most deluded of fools in love would enjoy.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
09/18/09
Bruce Demara
Bruce Demara
Toronto Star

Although the film begins promisingly, it proves to be little more than a soap opera.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
09/17/09
Calvin Wilson
Calvin Wilson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Despite its two appealing leads, Love Happens is, as the kids say, not happening.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
09/18/09
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Love Happens - if they say so, but we're still looking for proof beyond what's seen on the screen.

Full Review Source: What Would Toto Watch? | comment Comment
09/18/09
Christian Toto
Christian Toto
What Would Toto Watch?

Love supposedly happens in Love Happens. We'll have to take their word for it.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
09/17/09
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
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