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Actors: Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern, Jason Ritter
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Happy Endings |
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This is a story of love, sex, abortion, and sexual taboos; such as a step sibiling romp,"happy endings"- sex with a masseur, gay men, lesbians, 22 year old wonding if he is gay, sex for money and Lolita concepts. The vignettes intermingle with Mamie and Charlie starting out as step siblings who do it and she gets pregenant. This is where the abortion takes place, but as we find out later... there was no abortion and Charlie only finds out after he's 40+ years old. After himself having had a vasectomy at 21 and becoming gay. His gay lover Gil has 2 high friends (lesbians) that have a 2 year old boy. Charlie be comes convienced that the child is Gil's even though the friends claim the sperm Gil had donated years before did not work and they went to a sperm bank instead. Meanwhile back with Mamie after she and her lover a masseur do it on the massage table she gets a blackmail letter about her long lost supposed to be aborted son. The irony here is that her profession is as an abortion councelor. She meets the blackmailer, Nicky, who it turns out is trying to film a documentary about the reuniting of Mamie and her son so that he can get into AFI. She has seemingly no interest in her son or in being filmed. Yet she follows Nicky from the meeting and later she and Havier, the masseur, break into Nicky's hotel room to try and find out her son's name. Nicky catches them and a new blackmail plan is hatched. Mamie suggests Nicky film Havier an alien from Mexico and his 'happy endings'. There is also a sub-plot with Charlie, seems Jason Ritter's character is secretly in love with him and takes home security tapes from the restaurant showing Charlie mopping with just shorts on so he can jerk off to it. He runs the karaoke night at the restaurant where Jude (Magie Gyllenhaal) sings one night. Finding her voice incredible he asks her to join his band. She accepts and trys to turn him hetrosexual, although it was just her gold-digging plan to get to his rich homophobic father.
--Erika, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Happy Endings |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- abortion
- LESBIANS!!!!!!
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- psychiatrist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- red
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- (man) average
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- lesbians!
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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