Directed by:
Don RoosScreenplay:
Don RoosCinematography:
Clark MathisCast:
Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Jason Ritter, Laura Dern, Sarah Clarke, Johnny Galecki, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow, Hallee Hirsh (more)VOD (1)
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This comedic drama from writer-director Don Roos 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). (official distributor synopsis)
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There is a certain attempt to be innovative in an American independent drama genre. Random labels that were made as some kind of an explanation to the characters were very nice and it got me closer to them. But since I understood some of them more and some of them less, my final impression was that it is an average movie, which you will forget a few days later.
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