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Happy Endings [DVD] [2005]
enlarge	Director: Don Roos Actors: Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom Arnold Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £2.34 as of 21/11/2009 20:13 GMT details You Save: £17.65 (88%) New (15) Used (8) Collectible (1) from £1.69 Seller: great_entertainment Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 24049 Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Arabic (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Hungarian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 127 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5035822295032 ASIN: B000DN6DH8 Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Release Date: March 27, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: "It's a comedy, sort of," a title card announces at the start of iHappy Endings/i --just after Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) has been hit by a car. So it is, but talk about an unhappy beginning! Never fear, writer/director Don Roos will fulfill the promise of that title in several unexpected ways. The story then flashes back to 1983 for Mamie's life-altering encounter with her stepbrother. Mamie and Charley (Steve Coogan) will struggle with its consequences for the rest of the film. Does her teen pregnancy explain the fact that she became an abortion counsellor or that he came out of the closet? Roos doesn't say, but nor does he judge. He loves his characters--foibles and all--in his ambitious, Altman-esque follow-up to the acerbic yet heartfelt iThe Opposite of Sex/i. As before, Kudrow is the center around which the other plotlines revolve (and her uptight, yet likable Mamie couldn't resemble TV's Phoebe less). In the end, though, Maggie Gyllenhaal's seductive Jude and Tom Arnold's sensitive Frank are Roos' most inspired creations. Their relationship is one of contemporary cinema's oddest and most touching. The happy ending for one will be real, the other imaginary, but everyone will earn the one they get. i--Kathleen C. Fennessy/i

Customer Reviews: Elegant and witty June 6, 2006 Emmalina (UK) 4 out of 5 found this review helpful I didn't really know what to expect from this film and it definately doesn't conform to the norm. It has a gentle wit to accompany the acute observations of people's lives that is very moving. The story is excellent and the way the character's interweave is masterfully done. I won't try to discuss the plot as it is too complicated but I will say that this is a film which stays with you for a while afterwards. The acting is superb and the plot thought provoking and very contemporary. I loved this film and would highly recommend. Crossing paths leading nowhere... September 9, 2008 Dominic Swayne (London) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful An overblown, rather forced, mish-mash of ideas, most of which simply don't work. Not a patch on The Opposite of Sex, which was sharp, witty, outrageously funny and compulsively watchable.

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