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Happy Endings
2005
This comedic drama from writer-director Don Roos ('The Opposite Of Sex') comes packed with many unusual themes including abortion, homosexual parenting, teenage pregnancy, marrying for green cards, and the unscrupulous practice of bringing a client to orgasm at the conclusion of a massage (the happy ending referenced in the .. Read more
| Starring | Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford, David Sutcliffe |
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| Director | Don Roos |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian |
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Happy Endings
This comedic drama from writer-director Don Roos ('The Opposite Of Sex') comes packed with many unusual themes including abortion, homosexual parenting, teenage pregnancy, marrying for green cards, and the unscrupulous practice of bringing a client to orgasm at the conclusion of a massage (the happy ending referenced in the title). Lisa Kudrow plays the recipient of one such massage, and she later makes a video about her masseur/lover who says he has information about a son she gave up for adoption years earlier. Meanwhile, her gay brother (Steve Coogan) suspects that his boyfriend may have given sperm to a lesbian couple (Laura Dern and Sarah Clarke) to help them have a daughter. Another thread of this intricately woven plot concerns a sexual libertine (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who seduces both a rich widower (Tom Arnold) and his closeted gay son (Jason Ritter). Amazingly, it is Arnold who manages to stand out among the ensemble cast with an endearingly vulnerable performance that lingers in the mind long after the film is over. With onscreen pop-ups relaying information about both the past and the future of the characters, the acting and the script are uniformly first-rate. Tracks by Calexico and Kid Loco comprise a lot of the great soundtrack, and Gyllenhaal's real singing voice is heard during her character's several torchy numbers.
| Starring | Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford, David Sutcliffe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bobby Cannavale, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter, Laura Dern |
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| Director | Don Roos |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 7 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, Spanish, Hungarian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Estonian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 2005 To Rent: DVD: 27 Mar 2006 |
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A rare American movie with the edge and wisdom of the best foreign films... The movie gradually deepens as Roos interweaves multiple plot strands and a large cast of characters
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- Movieline's Hollywood Life
- 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
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Ignore that other daft review! Excellent film!
I picked this film from the rental library based on the cast, and it was a really pleasant surprise. It is a character ensemble piece, with several inter-... read more »
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- Cath
- Coventry, UK
- 08 Apr 2006 at 00:56
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No beginnings
What is it all about? I thought that I may have gone to sleep somewhere and that is why I could not understand the film. But no! No sleep, just a film that is ... read more »
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It's a sick, sick bond
I really didn't know what to expect of this movie, and now I've seen it I really don't know what to make of it!
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Strong cast but a bit messy
Chuckled on and off through the film but found it a bit messy and sometimes hard to follow the strands that seemed to me to go off on wierd tangents - probably ... read more »
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- a customer
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- 27 Feb 2011 at 18:27
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Happy Endings
This comedic drama from writer-director Don Roos ('The Opposite Of Sex') comes packed with many unusual themes including abortion, homosexual parenting, teenage pregnancy, marrying for green cards, and the unscrupulous practice of bringing a client to orgasm at the conclusion of a massage (the ...
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