Happy Tears

2009
R
1 Std. 32 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,2/10

1634

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne hopes that their father's condition isn't that serious. Joe is still singing and playing his old guitar, and the lively widower even has a new "ladyfriend," shameless and sassy Shelly. But as the visible moments of their father's impending senility increase, so do the dysfunctional family dynamics. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura's busy schedule as an environmentalist and mother of two small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson. Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! Any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuTwo sisters return home to deal with their ailing father, only to face some surprising situations.Two sisters return home to deal with their ailing father, only to face some surprising situations.Two sisters return home to deal with their ailing father, only to face some surprising situations.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,2/10

1634

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Film debut of Billy Magnuessen.

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The plane landing in Pittsburgh is clearly not in Pittsburgh. In the landing scene there is a large body of water and a ship visible. There's no body of water within sight of PIT.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Shutter Island/The Ghost Writer/Happy Tears (2010)

Soundtracks
I'm A King Bee
Written by Slim Harpo
Performed by Slim Harpo
Published by Embassy Music Corporation (BMI)
Courtesy of Hip-O Records
Under License from Universal Music Enterprises

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9/10

excellent!

Saw this at Cinema Sundays at the Charles here in Baltimore.

The audience liked it a lot, from their reactions during the film and also at the Q&A. Parker Posey and Demi Moore play two sisters who are faced with taking care of their father in the house where they grew up. Their father, played by Rip Torn, is becoming less and less compos mentis. Not forgetting the wonderful Ellen Barkin, who brings humanity to the role of Shelley, a woman who has reached bottom.

The movie has some pretty trippy sections, a fair amount of things that make you not so sure what's supposed to be happening in the movie's reality, and what's just happening in the head of one of the characters.

It's primarily a good-natured comedy about people and how they get along. It's very funny, with some subtle and unexpected laughs. I can't wait for this to be shown in a local theater so I can see it again.