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  • 2005
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Set just a few moments into the future, Happy Here and Now hinges on an around-the-corner sci-fi premise, involving a computer technology that allows people to project alternate identities over the Internet. But the movie's dreamlike aspect emerges from real people and places. As various characters cross paths, a larger story takes shape...

Directed By: Michael Almereyda

Written By: Michael Almereyda

  • 2005
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 29 m

Happy Here and Now

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Set just a few moments into the future, Happy Here and Now hinges on an around-the-corner sci-fi premise, involving a computer technology that allows people to project alternate identities over the Internet. But the movie's dreamlike aspect emerges from real people and places. As various characters cross paths, a larger story takes shape...

Directed By: Michael Almereyda

Written By: Michael Almereyda

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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18% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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18% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Since premiering on the festival circuit in 2002, this small masterpiece has been one of the best films around not to secure a proper theatrical release, and while one week on a single L.A. screen at the height of the crowded holiday season may not exactly qualify as proper, it's nevertheless a joyous happening.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
80
Isn't for everyone. It seems certain to confound as many viewers as it will inspire. But pic will foster a core critical contingent that will find itself transfixed and, ultimately, deeply moved by the film's ravishing power.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
70
It's perhaps most remarkable as a sweet, mysterious portrait of pre-flood New Orleans, which Almereyda not incorrectly portrays as a land of wandering, uncertain souls.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
70
Beautifully acted and filmed, with the Internet imagery rendered in Pixelvision.
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Like some other contemporary films that try to stitch together a small army of characters into a community of sorts, Happy Here and Now feels like a symptom in search of a cure.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
40
Rarely interesting, always confounding.
By Tim Merrill FULL REVIEW
25
Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf - where it's been gathering dust for several years.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company IFC Productions, Keep Your Head
Release Date Dec 14, 2005
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating R
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Awards

Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination

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