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Movie: Another Happy Day (2011)
Release Date:4 November 2011 (USA)
Directors:    Sam Levinson
Writers:           Sam Levinson
Genres:         Comedy
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Just saw at Sundance today----ANOTHER HAPPY DAY. And as a divorced and remarried mother, I see the whole tale, all of it, tracing back to the basic horror of courts giving orders to families. An insult to all, these court-ordered "visitations" and "custodies" hark back to the American days of slavery and even to the Indian genocide: they make property and payment and displacement and exile the rule of ownership.
A woman becomes a convenient cottage industry, a child becomes a ward and an orderable, and children are driven from reservation to reservation till the collective guilt about contemporary divorce is exhausted through thousands of highway miles and chartable attendance hours at the new school of reform: pay for your parents' divorce through hours, miles, and tears, and dislocation. (Children are robbed of the sanctuary of mother and home.
There's nary a well-adjusted character here, but most neurotic of all is Lynn (Barkin, who also produced). Interpreting every conflict as a personal threat, she's introduced bickering with her two youngest sons while they drive to her parents' Annapolis estate, where eldest son Dylan (Michael Nardelli) will be marrying Heather (Laura Coover, oddly relegated to scenery). In one of countless cliches, the road-trip sniping is seen through the camcorder lens of young Ben (Daniel Yelsky), whose older brother Elliot (Ezra Miller), desperate for any drug he can get his hands on, is brilliant at pushing Mom's buttons.
"It seems there has been an inordinate amount of drama since we got here," Elliott says after arriving at his grandparents' house. Indeed, ailing grandpa Joe (George Kennedy) sees his pacemaker sputter, grandma Doris (Burstyn) unwittingly admits that depression runs in the family, Elliott nearly ODs, and Lynn shakes with stress over seeing her abusive ex-husband Paul (Thomas Haden Church) and his goofy wife Patty (Moore), along with worrying over the impending arrival of her daughter Alice (Bosworth), who has been cutting herself. Eventually Elliot not only calls his mother the worst name in the book, but spits in her face.
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Levinson's comedy isn't so much black as abrasive, and Barkin's perpetually breathy perf strains credibility as well as the viewer's nerves. Nearly all the film's females break down sobbing at some point, which grows tiresome. On the plus side, the pic's convincing scenes, though few and far between, linger uncomfortably in the pain of impossible reconciliation, as in tense exchanges between Bosworth's Alice and her father, whose futility is believably conveyed by Church. Best in the large cast is Moore, who brings a much-needed playfulness to her garishly outfitted and shamelessly ditzy character.
Tech credits are average, with the exception of Stacey Battat's vivid costumes, which almost manage to characterize Levinson's caricatures.
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