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Title: Happiness Runs (2010)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Joni Barth | ... | Rachel's Mom |
| Kirsten Berman | ... | Jenny | |
| Mark Boone Junior | ... | Victor's Father | |
| Joseph Castanon | ... | Little Mackie | |
| Richard Edson | ... | Pete | |
| AnnaLisa Erickson | ... | Nancy | |
| Shiloh Fernandez | ... | Jake | |
| John Fleck | ... | Chad's Dad | |
| Kevin Gage | ... | Hypnotist | |
| Hanna Hall | ... | Becky | |
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Gregorio | ... | Sam (as Zia Harris) |
| Rutger Hauer | ... | Insley | |
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Loni LiPuma | ... | Rachel's Friend |
| Andie MacDowell | ... | Victor's Mother | |
| Ann Magnuson | ... | Chad's Mom | |
A young man named Victor (Mark L. Young) realizes the shortcomings of the Utopian ideals on the hippie commune where he was raised. Victor's mother (Andie MacDowell) is funding the commune where the guru Insley (Rutger Hauer) hypnotizes and seduces women with a technique he calls "running". Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him their bodies and all of their worldly possessions. Victor's childhood love, Becky (Hanna Hall), returns to take care of her deathly ill father. Victor, haunted by visions of Becky's death, is desperate to save her and himself by escaping from the cult. Preoccupied with Insley's free love philosophy, the adults of the community overlook the painful reality that the self destructive behavior of their children is most certainly due to early exposure to sex and drugs. To afford an escape, Victor tries to sell marijuana, but is cut out by rivals competing for Becky's affection. Finally, Victor is torn between getting money from his mother... Written by Strand Releasing
Fantastic movie... if you've experienced countercultures. If you haven't, you might not get it. This film makes no effort to bring in uninformed audience members. (In sharp contrast to Saving Private Ryan, where a war journalist character, for our sake, knows nothing about war.)
It's human nature to compete and/or differentiate ourselves. This commune homogenizes everything, removing traditional channels of competition and expression. (I've lived in a town like that!) If this film had shown character development, it would have been forced and faked. What it does explore is how how self expression prevails, albeit in a warped and perverted form, despite these constraints. It's a very interesting film.