Happy endings (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Happy endings |
| Original title | Happy endings |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Don Roos |
| script | Don Roos |
| production |
Michael Paseornek Holly Wiersma |
| music | William Goldstein |
| camera | J. Clark Mathis |
| cut | David Codron |
| occupation | |
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Happy Endings is an American comedy from writer and director Don Roos ( The Opposite of Sex ). In the film u. a. the Friends star Lisa Kudrow with.
action
The film is set in Los Angeles and tells in ten stories of the imponderables of life and love. Even tragic or strange complications sometimes come to an unexpectedly happy ending. The stories are linked by the heterosexual and homosexual main characters.
One episode tells how father and son accidentally and independently meet the same woman. Another is about a mother who put her baby up for adoption years ago. Now the past overtakes her when a documentary filmmaker claims to know her grown-up son and his living conditions. He wants to film the encounter between mother and son.
production
Shooting began on April 5 and ended on May 14, 2004. The recordings were made in California, using the cities of Glendale and Los Angeles as locations.
The film production was taken over by Lions Gate Films , which also received the distribution rights for the USA. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment received the exploitation rights for the German market .
publication
Happy Endings premiered on January 20, 2005 at the Sundance Film Festival and was screened on June 21, 2005 at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival , which started for the second time under the name Frameline Film Festival. In Brazil, the comedy was screened at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival on September 30, 2005 and at the São Paulo International Film Festival on October 21, 2005. The film also premiered at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on March 29, 2006 in the United Kingdom.
On 15 July 2005 ran Happy Endings in the American cinema, and could be seen for 63 days, until 15 September 2005 in various cinemas. In Germany, the film was released as direct-to-video on March 28, 2006.
Gross profit
On the opening weekend, the comedy grossed $ 240,075 and $ 1.3 million worldwide.
Awards
Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the Independent Spirit Award . In 2005 the film was nominated in four categories for the Satellite Award , so. u. a. Tom Arnold as Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role , but the film could not win a prize.
Web links
- Happy Endings in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Happy endings on moviepilot.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Happy Endings (2005). Box Office Mojo , accessed November 27, 2017 .