Happy Tears

20092009
RR
1h 32min

5.2/10

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.Two sisters return home to deal with their ailing father, only to face some surprising situations.

5.2/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Happy Tears

Demi Moore and Parker Posey in Happy Tears (2009)

Parker Posey and Christian Camargo in Happy Tears (2009)

Demi Moore, Parker Posey, and Ellen Barkin in Happy Tears (2009)

Parker Posey and Dina Gardner in Happy Tears (2009)

Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Ellen Barkin, and Rip Torn in Happy Tears (2009)

Demi Moore, Parker Posey, and Rip Torn in Happy Tears (2009)

Mitchell Lichtenstein in Happy Tears (2009)

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. —intlpress@aol.com

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Taglines
- There's an art to going home without going crazy.
Genres
- Comedy
- Drama
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for language, drug use, and some sexual content including brief nudity
Parents guide

Trivia
Film debut of Billy Magnuessen.

Goofs
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.

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

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

Top review

5/10

Kinda "chick flick", kinda surprising

"Happy Tears" is sort of odd: It draws you in, and you comfortably watch the whole thing. Then, after it ends, you realize it suffers from "chick flick" syndrome, almost as bad as the worst of the genre.

It really has poor story structure. It seems to be moving along, but really it's just floating along on a stream of trenchant dialog and beautiful graphics and editing, and some great acting. But it ends on a happy-go-lucky, that seems rather undeserved and subsequently trite. All kinds of dramatic elements get dropped, and others enter without decent leading development.

In short, if you like narrative integrity, skip it.

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