Happy Tears R
There's an art to going home without going crazy.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 15, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin, Christian Camargo & Billy Magnussen | |
Directed by | Mitchell Lichtenstein | |
Screenwriting by | Mitchell Lichtenstein | |
Composition by | Robert Miller | |
Director of Photography: | Jamie Anderson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Hollywood's strong female actors have in Lichtenstein a young talent who gives them the roles they deserve.
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I.E. Weekly
Rating: 2/4 --
On its way to a climax that ends every plot strand on an unrealistically upbeat and pat note, Happy Tears loses sight of what made the film so engrossing in the first place.
Miami Herald
Lichtenstein conjures some sweet moments and striking metaphors... -- Grade: B-
A.V. Club
Rating: 2/5 --
Writer and director Mitchell Lichtenstein struggles to find the humor in a host of horrors.
New York Times
Rating: 82/100 --
Demi Moore and Parker Posey play polar-opposite sisters dealing with their aging father (Rip Torn) who's showing signs of senility, soiling himself and shacking up with his "nurse" (Ellen Barkin).
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Rating: B- --
Happy Tears is a complete mess of a movie, but Lichtenstein conjures some sweet moments and striking metaphors -- and none more striking than Posey's $500 boots, which look either black or blue, given the available light.
AV Club
Rating: 1/5 --
one of those awkwardly pretentious attempts to seem hip and profound by simply depicting people acting really goofy
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Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
TEETH director Michael Lichtenstein takes a sharp turn from teen-oriented satire to mature family drama with this semi-autobiographical story concerning a pair of grown-up sisters who return to their family home in order to care for their ailing father. Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) have long since moved out of their family home when they discover that their father's (Rip Torn) health has taken a turn for the worse. Returning to Pittsburgh in order to care for their slowly degenerating dad, the sisters quickly realize that their father is in total denial about his condition. Jayne has been shielded from the harsher side of life since she was just a little girl, and now as Laura begins pushing her sister to accept their bleak reality, their father takes a seedy lover (Ellen Barkin), who immediately rubs the girls the wrong way. But dealing with the father becomes the least of Jayne's and Laura's worries when the drama in their personal lives drags the demons of their past up to the surface and out into the open.
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Product Info
- UPC: 031398122104
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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