Underplayed Gems

Happy Endings (2005)

Happy Endings poster
Directed by
Don Roos
Genre
comedy film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 07m
Rated
R
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 118 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Three storylines weave together to follow a group of people in Los Angeles as they deal with love, secrets, and family ties. A filmmaker tries to blackmail her father, a massage therapist makes a surprising connection, and a young man searches for his birth mother.

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What happens

Happy Endings is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Don Roos and starring Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow and Jason Ritter. The film's plot uses interconnected storylines to tell three stories of Los Angeles natives that center around love and family. This plot structure led to the coining of the term "hyperlink cinema", by Alissa Quart in her review of this film for the journal Film Comment. The expression "happy ending" is a colloquial term for offering sexual release to a client at the end of a massage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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