Happy Endings (2005)

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Happy Endings
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Studio: Lionsgate
Rating: R
Release Date: Jul 15, 2005
Running Time: 130 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: United States
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Mamie is being blackmailed. This filmmaker named Nicky claims to know Mamie's son--the one she gave up for adoption--but Nicky won't introduce her to him unless he can film their reunion. Enter Javier, Mamie's massage therapist boyfriend, who convinces Nicky to film him instead. Now they're all making a movie about massage--and 'happy endings.' Charley has a longtime boyfriend named Gil. Their best friends, Pam and Diane, once tried using Gil as a sperm donor. They said his sperm didn't take, but Charley thinks those control-freak lesbians are lying. Pam and Diane's two-year-old son looks exactly like Gil. And it's time to set the record straight. Jude is pissed--not at anyone in particular--just in general. When her cousin kicks her out of the house, Jude shacks up with Otis, who's still trying to convince his father, Frank, that he's straight. Frank's a widower. And he's rich. So Jude decides to sleep with him, too. The last thing she expected was to fall in love.
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - July 15, 2005
You have to hand it to a movie that features a top-notch acting job from Tom Arnold. Happy Endings has that and hottie Maggie Gyllenhaal, as a singer who is having sex with Arnold and his gay son (Jason Ritter). There's also the ever-deft Lisa Kudrow, who is trying to find the son she gave up for adoption. And there's Steve Coogan, who broods that his lover (David Sutcliffe) provided the sperm that brought a baby to their lesbian best friends (Laura Dern and Sarah Clarke). Writer-director Don… Continued
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Despite quite a grim and morose opening sequence, Happy Endings is a comedy, ''sort of.'' That's what they tell us, anyway, in pop-up titles immediately following the opener--the first of many cardinal cinematic sins committed throughout the film. Employing the oldest indie trick in the book of interweaving complex, seemingly separate stories together, the film is a tired cliché from the get go.

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