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Happy Accidents
IFC Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language
Starring
Marisa Tomei,
Vincent D'Onofrio,
Nadia Dajani,
Tovah Feldshuh,
and
Holland Taylor
A tale of love and time travel set in contemporary New York.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Brad Anderson
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Brad Anderson
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 17, 2002
Video: December 17, 2002
Theatrical: August 24, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Anderson is a hopeless romantic in a cynical world, and for a brief moment he makes the case that true love is the only power that can crack time and space.

80
Chicago Reader
Staff (Not Credited)
Best of all, and unusual for a screenwriter, Anderson handles the science consistently (maybe even scientifically).

80
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Looks drab and doesn't take very good advantage of its New York locations, but the neurotic intensity and emotional honesty of its two leads more than make up for it.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Fresh and flip and enjoyable, it's a sci-fi-tinged romantic comedy that I urge you to seek out.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Happy Accidents is romantic perversity in reverse.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
The actors have enough appeal to keep it moving over the speed bumps.

75
Boston Globe
Joan Anderman
D'Onofrio's affably wide-eyed weirdness generates not only pleasure, but a genuinely authentic conundrum, bouncing forward and backward toward the truth.
75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
"Happy Accidents" should retire Tomei's status as part of a show-biz urban legend and establish her once and for all as one of our most versatile and engaging performers.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Essentially silliness crossed with science fiction. The actors make it fun to watch.

70
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
This sweet, lovingly passionate story is nonetheless a charmer. Anderson's technique -- jaggy, product-testimonial close-ups; eerie still-image insertions -- is arresting, but this is an actors' showcase.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A lighthearted yarn designed to stand out by virtue of its intricate structure and trippy time-travel element. But the fanciful material wears thin pretty quickly, the air leaking out of the balloon long before party's over.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Gleefully silly fun, with a few core concepts on the nature of time, space, and la-la-la-love thrown in for good measure. And who can resist a puffin, anyway?

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Doesn't have the negative qualities of many big-studio romantic comedies, but it doesn't quite take flight.
60
Village Voice
Ed Park
The leads smooth over the plot holes endemic to all 4D fables, making the movie more than mere déjà vu.

50
Washington Post
Megan Rosenfeld
The actors make a good team in this film, and they're playing well-defined characters, but the script is so repetitive that we get mighty impatient for the mystery to be resolved.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
This is an overlong film interesting chiefly for its performances.
50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
D'Onofrio is a natural for the role of a romantic who just may be a freak. A highly physical actor, he ranges between sweetly awkward and a candidate for the kind of mental hospital shown in "Session 9."
50
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
If you're willing to suspend a barrel or two of disbelief, then Happy Accidents has its moments.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
As impressive as it is in the abstract, all the detail ultimately drags the movie down and lengthens it unnecessarily.

50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Put in such an uncomfortable position, the audience needs something to fall back on, like chemistry between its stars. Here that's half-hearted at best.

42
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
All guts, no glory and, worse, bad story.
20
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
It's a warped kind of romantic comedy in which the whole is substantially less than the sum of the parts.

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