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Starring:
Al Madrigal, Billie Wolff, Brea Grant, Breckin Meyer, Charlyne Yi, Joel McHale, Jonathan C. Daly, Kerry Bishé, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Natalie Morales, Natalie Zea, Paul Scheer, Shannon Woodward, Stephen Root
Summary:
A happily married couple (Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé) discover their friends are resentful of their lustful relationship. When a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, they begin to question the loyalty of their so-called friends.
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The Film Stage
Mar 16, 2021
McHale and Bishé are the ones who carry things because only they (like us) are aware of the sinister goings on beneath their over-the-top lust and the increasingly transparent surrealist nightmare entrapping them. Their dynamic is simultaneously an impossible ideal and an authentic reality to aspire towards. Mankind’s unwitting heroes.
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Mar 18, 2021
First-time feature helmer Grabinski firmly steers his script away from sticking in one mode or another: It’s neither purely scary, nor purely tense, nor purely hilarious, but instead most or all of these at once, producing a uniquely unnerving tone where shortness of breath in one moment instantaneously gives way to cackles in the next.
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Mar 26, 2021
Happily drifts into the same kind of sci fi-tinged bourgeois relationship drama territory as Elizabeth Moss/Mark Duplass four-hander The One I Love, or the dimension-hopping dinner party of indie fave Coherence. Snide, sleek, and effortlessly biting, Happily is wittier and meaner than either, but also curiously romantic, like an episode of The Twilight Zone with a score by the Mountain Goats.
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Mar 18, 2021
Apr 22, 2021
Mar 18, 2021
Ultimately, Happily seems to bite off more than it can chew, proving more successful in its insightful exploration of relationship dynamics than its bizarre storyline. That few of its narrative mysteries are resolved is obviously meant to be purposefully ambiguous, but the results are finally more frustrating than intriguing.
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Apr 17, 2021
Though there are some interesting elements in this film, it fails to be funny (labelled as a comedy) and really drags at times. I will say the acting is excellent, the direction and editing not so much.
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Apr 15, 2022
Weird movie, not sure if not rating it too high, but it was exciting at first and unpredictable. Ending was a bit dumb tho and not satisfying.
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