| | Happy Endings DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Comedies Movies, Gay/Lesbian Videos, Love, Sex, Romantic Comedy, Filmmakers, Massage | | Starring | Tom Arnold, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Lisa Kudrow, Bobby Cannavale, Jesse Bradford, Jason Ritter, David Sutcliffe | | Director | Don Roos | | Additional Music/Songs | Calexico, Kid Loco | | Director of Photography | Clark Mathis | | Producer | Michael Paseornek, Holly Wiersma | | Screenwriter | Don Roos |
This film weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family, and the sheer unpredictability of life itself. Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Ritter, and Maggie Gyllenhaal star. Extras include director's commentary, making of featurette, deleted scenes, outtakes, montage, trailers, and more. This comedic drama from writer-director Don Roos (THE OPPOSITE OF SEX) comes packed with many unusual themes including abortion, homosexual parenting, teenage pregnancy, marrying for green cards, and the unscrupulous practice of bringing a client to orgasm at the conclusion of a massage (the "happy ending" referenced in the title). Lisa Kudrow plays the recipient of one such massage, and she later makes a video about her masseur/lover--who says he has information about a son she gave up for adoption years earlier. Meanwhile, her gay brother (Steve Coogan) suspects that his boyfriend may have given sperm to a lesbian couple (Laura Dern and Sarah Clarke) to help them have a daughter. Another thread of this intricately woven plot concerns a sexual libertine (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who seduces both a rich widower (Tom Arnold) and his closeted gay son (Jason Ritter). Amazingly, it is Arnold who manages to stand out among the ensemble cast with an endearingly vulnerable performance that lingers in the mind long after the film is over. With onscreen pop-ups relaying information about both the past and the future of the characters, the acting and the script are uniformly first-rate. Tracks by Calexico and Kid Loco comprise a lot of the great soundtrack, and Gyllenhaal's real singing voice is heard during her character's several torchy numbers. In Theaters: JULY 15, 2005 Happy Endings Reviews: "With her well-honed comedic timing, Kudrow does a fine job as someone who was thrown off course at an early age....[Arnold's] performance is more nuanced than usual."-- Claudia Puig, USA Today "[S]lyly subversive....Mr. Roos has a screwball director's sense of timing and a writer's love for the well-turned phrase."
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times "[A] rare American movie with the edge and wisdom of the best foreign films....The movie gradually deepens as Roos interweaves multiple plot strands and a large cast of characters."
-- Stacey Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life Happy Endings | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.93) | | Studio | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2005 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank | 20152  | | CD Universe Part number | 6974129 | | Catalog number | 18372 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 15, 2005 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | sexual content, language, and some drug use | | Running Time | 128 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Special Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround Sound; Digitally Processed; Widescreen; Special Edition; Subtitled |
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Happy Endings DVD Region 1 Keep Case Audio: Closed Captioned - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional Additional Release Material: Trailers Making Of Outtakes Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary: Don Roos - Director Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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