Happy Endings
User Score
7.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
  3. Negative: 2 out of 22

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  1. PeterJ.
    May 9, 2006
    3
    I am shocked at all of the good scores this movie has received. Besides seeing Phoebe's nipple, I was bored out of my mind watching this movie. It was so bad my wife made me turn it off. Good thing I did, because then we watched Cinderella Man, which was a great movie!
  2. SeanJ.
    Dec 11, 2006
    4
    Casting Maggie Gyllenhaal as a calculating young skank didn't ring true - she's too old for the role, cavorting around with young 20-somethings. Her singing performance at the end as a sort of character redemption (typical Hollywood Happy Ending!) made me want to slap the screenwriter/director. Kudrow's character was irritating and unrealistic, except the actress letting her age/wrinkles show through (minimal Botox - wow). Her meltdown at the beginning/ending made you feel cheated, like "oh come on heifer! Will you get a grip". The two son's featured in the film were zero-dimensional.… Expand
  3. SamW
    Dec 12, 2005
    4
    The Opposite of Sex is one of my all-time favorite movies because Don Roos succeeds so masterfully at presenting unlikable characters and making them eminently likable. Happy Endings fails utterly in this respect. The characters start out unlikable and remain that way throughout the movie. The acting is great, but not enough to save this movie from being a festival of misery and depression.

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Metascore
57 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 31
  3. Negative: 2 out of 31
  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Jeremy Mathews
    60
    Roos creates a slate of interesting characters who find themselves in unexpected situations that lead to realistic--and in their own way, happy--endings.
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    70
    A real audience pleaser, so long as that audience is mentally agile and adult, for it comes at you from odd angles and features three distinct story lines and 10 main characters.
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  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    50
    A protracted parade of woefully familiar motifs from the Amerindie playbook, Happy Endings comes off like an undernourished Paul Thomas Anderson wannabe.
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