Plot Summary
Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern and Jason Ritter star in this unusual comedy, written and directed by Don Roos, that gathers a series of connected vignettes about the randomness of love and life. A documentary filmmaker threatens to reveal a woman's long-held secret; a father and his son find out that they're both seeing the same woman; a gay man discovers his partner may (or may not) be the father of their friend's baby; and more.
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Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
55%- Reviews Counted: 104
- Fresh: 57
- Rotten: 47
- Average Rating: 6.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The narrative sprawls without achieving depth and carries the additional burden of featuring only two or three interesting characters out of 10 candidates.
Rotten: Happy 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.
Fresh: Serves as a relaunching pad for the magical talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jude.
Fresh: Writer/director Don Roos has fashioned a funny though sometimes bleak and cynical black comedy, with multiple storylines that sometimes connect in jarring fashion.
Customer Reviews
As strange as as it gets......
I still can't leave the room. The double plot comes together very nicely, the writers did a very good job on this flim. ;-) it was nice seeing Lisa in a more serious role.
Not the cliche I expected
Nothing ends up as expected.......very well written.
Okay
This was NOT a comedy.
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- Happy Endings (Music from the Film)
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