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- 2021
- R
- Pluto TV
- 1 h 36 m
- 2021
- R
- Pluto TV
- 1 h 36 m
Summary A happily married couple (Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé) discover their friends are resentful of their lustful relationship. When a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, they begin to question the loyalty of their so-called friends.
Directed By: BenDavid Grabinski
Written By: BenDavid Grabinski
- 2021
- R
- Pluto TV
- 1 h 36 m
- 2021
- R
- Pluto TV
- 1 h 36 m
Happily
58
5.0
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Summary A happily married couple (Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé) discover their friends are resentful of their lustful relationship. When a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, they begin to question the loyalty of their so-called friends.
Directed By: BenDavid Grabinski
Written By: BenDavid Grabinski
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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7 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
58
50% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
McHale and Bishé are the ones who carry things because only they (like us) are aware of the sinister goings on beneath their over-the-top lust and the increasingly transparent surrealist nightmare entrapping them. Their dynamic is simultaneously an impossible ideal and an authentic reality to aspire towards. Mankind’s unwitting heroes.
Happily drifts into the same kind of sci fi-tinged bourgeois relationship drama territory as Elizabeth Moss/Mark Duplass four-hander The One I Love, or the dimension-hopping dinner party of indie fave Coherence. Snide, sleek, and effortlessly biting, Happily is wittier and meaner than either, but also curiously romantic, like an episode of The Twilight Zone with a score by the Mountain Goats.
A clever, high-concept dark comedy that uses the moral clarity of “The Twilight Zone” to see through the veil of modern cynicism, Happily jackknifes into the murky waters between #RelationshipGoals and #BodySnatcherVibes as it skewers the assumption that something must be very wrong with anyone who’s too happy for too long.
The only reason to see this film is if you’re a fan of any of the actors. Everyone is good, but ultimately, the story will let you down.
Grabinski has both wit and energy, and these qualities, along with a game cast, help keep “Happily” afloat for far longer than most made-in-L.A. dark domestic comedies. But the movie wants to do too many things, and grows diffuse.
Without spoiling any secrets, the film progresses in horror-film mode before, in its third act, tying things up in a somewhat clever, unexpected way. By then, though, you may have given up on this group.
Aiming for a darkly humorous portrait of marital bliss — and the difficulties of maintaining it — the film comes off as a half-formed “Twilight Zone” joke minus the punchline.
User Score
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Based on 14 User Ratings
5.0
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12 Ratings
12 Ratings
7% Negative
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1 Rating
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 User Ratings
5.0
7% Positive
1 Rating
1 Rating
86% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
7% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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