Happy Tears Screening: Fri. Oct 16th, 2009 @ 9:15 PM - Sequoia Theatre, Mill Valley, CA SPONSORED BY STRAWBERRY VILLAGE
Dad may have Alzheimer's, but he's not the only one whose mind and life seem to be slipping out of reach. Sisterly opposites Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) return to their childhood home in Pittsburgh to somehow and reluctantly manage their widowed, increasingly weird and terminally ill father. Mitchell Lichtenstein's second feature (follow-up to 2007's horror spoof Teeth) explores after its own fashion, but with equal frankness, themes broached in Tamara Jenkins' The Savages (MVFF 2007): Just what do we owe the imperfect ones to whom we are family? Musing all the while, with raucously sardonic but ultimately affirming humor, on the legacies of fathers living and gone, Happy Tears takes supreme advantage of a powerhouse cast—not least the excellent Rip Torn, who as the sisters' deteriorating dad mingles wry raunch with a gently stirring frailty; and Ellen Barkin in a brave, not to say bizarre turn as a frighteningly feral, slyly endearing crack-head gold-digger. —Robert Avila
Running time: 95 Country: US Category: US Cinema Directed by: Mitchell Lichtenstein Producers: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Joyce Pierpoline Screenwriter: Mitchell Lichtenstein Cinematographer: Jamie Anderson Editor: Joe Landauer Cast: Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin
Ticket Code: HAPP16S
Print Source: Roadside Attractions 7920 Sunset Blvd. Suite 402 Los Angeles, CA 90046
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Screening:
Fri. Oct 16th, 2009 @ 9:15 PM - Sequoia Theatre, Mill Valley CA
This film has gone to RUSH. If seats become available, they will be sold to patrons in the RUSH line on a first come, first served basis. Cash only, no discounts.
