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- IMDb page: Another Happy Day (2011)
- Rate: 5.6/10 total 157 votes
- Genre: Drama
- Release Date: 8 December 2011 (Greece)
- Runtime: USA:119 min
- Filming Location: Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA
- Director: Sam Levinson
- Stars: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller and Kate Bosworth
- Original Music By: Olafur Arnalds
- Sam Levinson (written by)
Known Trivia
Plot: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics. Full summary » | »
Story: A family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn (Barkin) as she arrives at her parents' Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan (Michael Nardelli), accompanied by her three younger children (Ezra Miller, Kate Bosworth, Daniel Yelsky). Lynn's hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot (Ezra Miller) lobs verbal grenades at his mother and her relatives while daughter Alice (Kate Bosworth), a fights valiantly to keep her longtime demons under control. The weekend quickly unravels as Lynn demands to be heard by her aloof, disdainful mother (Ellen Burstyn), ailing, distant father (George Kennedy) and ever-judgmental sisters (Siobhan Fallon, Diana Scarwid), but most especially by her ex-husband Paul (Thomas Hayden Church) and his hot-tempered second wife Patty (Demi Moore). Confronted with the deeply painful…Written by Phase4 Films
FullCast & Crew
Produced By:
- Ellen Barkin known as producer
- Gordon Bijelonic known as co-producer
- Richard Botto known as associate producer
- Bill Brady known as executive producer
- William T. Conway known as executive producer
- Tom Costa known as executive producer
- Cynthia Coury known as executive producer
- Peter Crane known as executive producer
- Christo Dimassis known as co-producer
- Pamela Lynn Fielder known as producer
- Caroline Kaplan known as executive producer
- Anne Keeble known as supervising producer
- Elana Krausz known as executive producer
- Todd J. Labarowski known as co-producer
- Jonathan Lieberman known as executive producer
- Johnny Lin known as producer
- Lauren Maddox known as co-producer
- Damon Martin known as co-producer
- Sean McEwen known as executive producer
- George McFarland known as co-producer
- Michael Nardelli known as producer
- Salli Newman known as producer
- Anne O'Shea known as co-producer
- Peter Pastorelli known as line producer
- Celine Rattray known as producer
- Wellington S. Tichenor known as associate producer
- Cindy Tolan known as co-producer
- Todd Traina known as producer
- Datari Turner known as co-producer
- Ellen Barkin known as Lynn
- Ezra Miller known as Elliot
- Kate Bosworth known as Alice
- Demi Moore
- Thomas Haden Church known as Paul
- George Kennedy
- Ellen Burstyn known as Doris
- Michael Nardelli known as Dylan
- Daniel Yelsky known as Ben
- Eamon O'Rourke known as Brandon
- Siobhan Fallon known as Bonnie
- Jeffrey DeMunn
- Diana Scarwid
- Geoffrey Beauchamp known as Ted
- Chad Cairns known as Groomsman
- Laura Coover known as Heather
- Courtney English
- Joey Ghinelli known as Groomsmen
- Gary Grace known as Heather's Father
- Robert Herrick known as Rob
- David Hirsch known as Tommy
- Jack Hoffman known as Fred
- Lola Kirke known as Charlie
- Lauren Maddox known as Allison
- Patrick McDade known as Father O'Grady
- Kathi Moore known as Kathy / Heather's Mother
- Clarence Olinger known as Gas Station Patron
- Christopher Lee Philips known as Dr. Stanwick
- Jimmie Roach known as The DJ
- April Rogalski known as Bridesmaid
- Sean Rogers known as Bobby
- Molly Sute known as Samantha
- Willy Vlasic known as Taylor
- Crystal Renee Whitt known as Bridesmaid
- Brian Anthony Wilson known as Jason – EMT#1
- Madison Haze known as Wedding guest (uncredited)
- Ron Heisler known as Worker (uncredited)
Supporting Department
Makeup Department:- Voni Hinkle known as hair department head
- Desne J. Holland known as makeup department head
- Louise Holoday known as third makeup artist
- Lauren Kress known as hair stylist
- Jon Lieckfelt known as makeup artist
- Patricia McAlhany Glasser known as key hair stylist
- Melanie Tooker known as key makeup artist
- Mary Chmelko-Jaffe known as props assistant
- Amy Graham known as assistant property master
- Jennifer Haybach known as set decoration shopper
- Malcolm X. Johnson known as set dresser
- Jerome Joyce known as set dresser
- Gina Monastiere known as production assistant/graphics
- Aaron Moskal known as props
- Justin Mutschler known as leadman
- Sharon Roggio known as property master
- Nikki Sass known as set dresser
- Jil Szewski known as pre-production art coordinator
- Kevin Vanderhoff known as on-set dresser
Companies
Production Companies:
- Filmula
- Mandalay Vision
- Michigan Production Studios
- Prop Blast Films (in association with)
- Taggart Productions
Other Companies:
- Carlson Catering Company catering
- Digital Post Services International Servicing
- Grace & Wild Studios Inc. processing and telecine by
- Gray Krauss Des Rochers legal services
- Michigan Crafty and Motion Picture Catering craft services
- Mid America Cine Support camera dollies
- Mid America Cine Support expendables
- Mid America Cine Support generators
- Mid America Cine Support grip and lighting equipment
- Mup Mups Animal Actors animals provided by
- Night Hawk Security security
- S.O.T.C. MultiMedia Group product placement
- Smooth Moving Productions Steadicam equipment provided by
- Smooth Moving Productions wireless video
Distributors:
- Phase 4 Films (2011) (USA) (theatrical)
- Calinos Entertainment (2012) (Turkey) (all media)
- Memento Films (2012) (France) (all media)
- Praesens-Film (2012) (Switzerland) (all media)
Other Stuff
Release Date:- USA 23 January 2011 (Sundance Film Festival)
- USA 18 March 2011 (South by Southwest Film Festival)
- France 4 September 2011 (Deauville American Film Festival)
- USA 23 September 2011 (Woodstock Film Festival)
- Greece 25 September 2011 (Athens Film Festival)
- Switzerland 28 September 2011 (Zurich Film Festival)
- USA 12 October 2011 (Mill Valley Film Festival)
- Japan 23 October 2011 (Tokyo International Film Festival)
- Sweden 13 November 2011 (Stockholm International Film Festival)
- USA 18 November 2011 (Los Angeles, California)
- USA 18 November 2011 (New York City, New York)
- Greece 8 December 2011
MPAA: Rated R for teen drug/alcohol abuse, pervasive language including sexual references, and brief graphic nudity
Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database
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04 May 2012, 11:34 am
The film opens up with 4:3 aspect ratio home footage and I'm thinking…"Oh no, what did I get myself into?" But the pace was fast and so I figured, "I'll keep watching." I'm glad this film held my attention and ant-sized span of interest.
This is one of the best films I've seen all year.
The acting: (including especially the supporting actors) it's fantastic and real. This film is about real reactions, situations, dramatizations, and family dynamic. I would love to read the screenplay and see how closely it was followed.
Sam Levinson has a very successful career ahead of him. After the film there was a Q&A and Sam nervously got on stage to introduce the actors. He started forgetting the names of people and there was some laughter in the audience. I think everyone felt the same way about the film afterwards–awestruck and humbled by his demeanor.
I've never met Sam, but he seems to be an endearing person and I think he put his heart into this film. I aspire to direct great films like Another Happy Day.
04 May 2012, 11:34 am
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.)
From these agonies and this perpetuated abuse of childhood this film came. Majestic. True.