Happy Here and Now (2002) - Rotten Tomatoes

Happy Here and Now (2002)

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48%
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AUDIENCE SCORE

43%

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Drawn into a menacing underground world of the New Orleans elite while searching for her missing sister, Muriel (Shalom Harlow), Amelia (Liane Balaban) is aided in her investigation by ex-CIA agent Bill (Clarence Williams III) in this effort from Nadja director Michael Almereyda. Soon discovering mysterious webcam footage on Muriel's laptop computer that will seemingly aid them in finding Amelia's sister, the duo is confronted with shifting identities in a scene where no one is quite who they appear to be on the surface. An obscure and disturbing study in the nature of avatars in the age of technological isolation, Almereyda's haunting drama soon leads Amelia and Bill into a complex web buried deep in the underground of a mysterious and sometimes menacing city.

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Cast

Karl Geary
as Eddie Mars/Tom
Shalom Harlow
as Muriel
Clarence Williams III
as Bill
Ally Sheedy
as Lois
Gloria Reuben
as Hannah
Josephine Martin
as Josephine
Liane Balaban
as Amelia
David Arquette
as Eddie
Isabel Gillies
as Isabel
Quintron
as Quintron
Nic Ratner
as Peter
John Sinclair
as Himself
Johnny Sinclair
as Himself
Ernie K-Doe
as Himself
Antoinette K-Doe
as Herself
Larry Fessenden
as Clifton
Kyle Jason Louque
as Police Officer
Billy Slaughter
as Napoleon Bonaparte
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Critic Reviews for Happy Here and Now

All Critics (21) | Top Critics (9)

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

December 16, 2005
Top Critic

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.

December 16, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5
Top Critic

Michael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years.

December 16, 2005 | Rating: 1/4
Top Critic

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.

December 16, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4
Top Critic

A bit too mannered to engage.

December 15, 2005 | Rating: 2/4
Top Critic

Mourning and gloom weigh upon most of the characters in Michael Almereyda's convoluted and numbingly pretentious Happy Here and Now

December 15, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4
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Audience Reviews for Happy Here and Now

[font=Century Gothic]"Happy Here and Now" starts out with Amelia(Liane Balaban) venturing to New Orleans to look for her missing sister, Muriel.(At the same time, a firefighter is agonizing over the loss of a fellow firefighter.) Bill(Clarence Williams III), a former CIA Agent, now cab driver, is helping with the search and uncovers a connection to an Eddie Mars who Muriel was communicating via the internet.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic](And what all of this has to do with Nikola Tesla, Blaise Pascal and the price of 7-Up in New Orleans, I have no idea.)[/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Happy Here and Now" begins well and ends up being totally incoherent. Basically the movie wants to be a commentary about not being able to commuicate with our fellow human beings, thus resorting to the company of computers instead. But if you want to chat with people on the internet all day long, be my guest.[/font]

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