Happy Endings

Name: Happy Endings
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Music
Released: July 15, 2005
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Coogan

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Lions Gate Films | Release Date: July 15, 2005 | R

Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Coogan

Summary: Don Roos deftly weaves together multiple stories to create a sharp, witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life itself. A feast of buried secrets, missed opportunities and welcome second chances, this wildly original comedy proves that the happiest ending of all is the one you least expect. (Lions Gate Films)

Director: Don Roos

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 128 min

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Manohla Dargis

It's possible that Maggie Gyllenhaal will never become a major star, but there isn't an American actress in movies today who holds the screen with as much deep-seated soul. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

Extremely pleasurable and well worth seeing. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

Bills itself as a comedy but unfolds as the drollest of dramas, an extended-family album for the age of abortion, adoption and donor sperm. It's a cheeky story about turning the other cheek. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Some of the characters are interesting, but their situations are not. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Way too long, too convoluted and too peppered with title cards...Even so, it's hard to dislike Don Roos' "Magnolia"-inspired triptych of interconnected comic tales about lies, sex and video. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

A protracted parade of woefully familiar motifs from the Amerindie playbook, Happy Endings comes off like an undernourished Paul Thomas Anderson wannabe. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Roos forecasts and explains every development with a title card, a device not unlike having someone yammering in your ear throughout the entire feature run time. In a more self-effacing director's commentary, he might have asked us, at least, to forgive the pun. Read full review

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ArizonaRex

Dec 29, 2005

So I loved The Opposite of Sex and I expected this one to be really similar, if not irritatingly the same. But it wasn't. I didn't really consider this a comedy or a dramedy. It was abstract and sad and moving. Don Roos, whether intentionally or not, moved me with this film. With So I loved The Opposite of Sex and I expected this one to be really similar, if not irritatingly the same. But it wasn't. I didn't really consider this a comedy or a dramedy. It was abstract and sad and moving. Don Roos, whether intentionally or not, moved me with this film. With chaos and beauty, he amazed me. The performances were great, the script was amazing. This movie was beautiful and caught we way off guard.… Expand