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Happy Tears (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mitchell Lichtenstein

Written By:
Mitchell Lichtenstein

Actors:
Parker Posey ..... Jayne
Demi Moore ..... Laura
Peter Patrikios ..... Driver
T. Ryder Smith ..... Shoe Salesman
Christian Camargo ..... Jackson
Victor Slezak ..... Eli Bell
Melissa Ticen ..... Stewardess
Rip Torn ..... Joe
Ellen Barkin ..... Shelly
Julianna Conforti ..... Young Jayne
Jacquelyn Conforti ..... Young Jayne
Alyssa Klein ..... Young Laura
David L. King ..... Dr. Sims
Aldous Davidson ..... Waiter
Richard Barlow ..... Mitch

Synopsis:

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.

In "Happy Tears," a comedy about the unhappy topic of family dysfunction, the writer and director Mitchell Lichtenstein ("Teeth") struggles to find the humor in a host of horrors, including encroaching parental dementia. Unfortunately, to judge from the many awkwardly handled passages, Mr. Lichtenstein does not possess the requisite filmmaking skill or certainly the delicacy, to balance the different, often jarringly contrasting moods, jokes and intimate revelations squeezed into this erratic, belabored movie

Drama about two sisters who travel from California to Pittsburgh to take care of their ailing father.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 September, 2011.

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