Not Another Happy Ending (2013)

When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she ... See full summary »

Director:

John McKay

Writer:

David Solomons

Stars:

Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, Iain De Caestecker

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Karen Gillan	...	Jane Lockhart
Stanley Weber	...	Tom Duval
Iain De Caestecker	...	Roddy
Gary Lewis	...	Benny Lockhart (Dad)
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Willie Scott
Freya Mavor	...	Nicola Ball
Kate Dickie	...	Anna Le Fevre
Amy Manson	...	Darsie
Niall Greig Fulton	...	Team Member 1
Bill Barclay	...	Team Member 2
Cora Bisset	...	Bookshop Owner (as Cora Bissett)
Louise Goodall	...	Doctor Klinsch
John Bett	...	Mr. McLeish
Callum Cuthbertson	...	Quiz Master

Storyline

When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she can't write when she's happy.The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he's in love with her.

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Plot Keywords:

publisher | cfnf scene | cfnf | cmnf scene | cmnf | 

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Taglines:

Sometimes Love Needs a Re-Write

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

UK

Release Date:

8 August 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Askta Mutlu Son Yoktur

Filming Locations:

Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Synchronicity Films, British Film Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Karen Gillan's nude scene in which her breasts were strategically hidden but not her bum was in a similar manner to Jennifer Aniston's nude scene in The Break-Up (2006). Karen referenced The Break-Up herself later on in Selfie: Perestroika where she played Eliza Dooley.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Tom Duval: Roddy! School...
Roddy: [walks in partly dressed] Morning.

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Crazy Credits

In a post-credits scene, Roddy is seen outside grading papers and thoroughly insulting his students' work.

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Soundtracks

Bloody Sweet Animals
Written by Michael Flynn
Performed by Huevo & The Giant
Licensed courtesy of Michael Flynn

User Reviews

Every note is false

I could simply dismiss this movie as a formulaic rom-com that is neither particularly romantic nor comic, but that wouldn't really get into the problem with this movie. The problem is it feels phony from beginning to end. Everything about it is wrong. The main character dresses quirky, but there's no sense that this is who she is, or that she has a purpose in her choice of clothes. Instead, you feel someone on the movie just decided to dress her that way. The love interests actions are at best I-Love-Lucy-level nonsense at worst borderline sociopathic. It's also an absurdly stupid premise, and the movie knows it's a stupid premise and makes that clear, yet goes with it anyway.

Every turn in the plot feels like it's there not because it is a natural outcome of what came before but simply because the writer wanted to create a situation.

The performances are good. The movie looks good. And the movie effectively hits the basic rom-com pressure points. But its soulless and stupid, and unerringly goes for the trite moments and the fake emotions.

I did like the main characters alter-ego. She was a good actress and was actually more convincing than the supposed real people in the film. But overall this was not just dull, but downright objectionable.