Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Desertman84 Another Happy Day is a black dramedy that features an ensemble cast such as Ellen Barkin, Kate Bosworth, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Haden Church and Demi Moore.It is all about a dysfunctional family that gathers together on a family weekend.One weekend,every family member gathers together at the Annapolis estate of Lynn's parents for the discussion of the marriage of her eldest son Dylan,who accompanied by his three younger children.Lyn's other children,Elliot and Alice arrives as well having issues of their own with the former who isn't really in a good relationship with her mother and the latter having a hard time fighting her demons.Worse things happen when Lynn is demanded to be heard by her parents and her judgmental sisters as well by her ex-husband Paul and his second wife,Patty.The film was difficult to watch since everyone - let me repeat that everyone - is dislikeable and unbearable. It isn't funny considering that many viewers see films to relax and enjoy a good movie.Unfortunately,the people in it add stress to the viewer.What also is unrealistic is the fact that everyone seem to hate each other and managed to live in the same roof.Despite having talented actors and actresses involved in it,they are unable to lift it from being a poor movie into at least an average one.Finally,the good screenplay did not help as well as viewer could not feel nor empathize with the characters in it.

sowha I am shocked at the number of decent reviews I read on this site. When I saw the cast, and the decent reviews, I decided to watch it. I'm just sorry I wasted 2 hours of my life. There isn't one "real" character in this film. Every role was portrayed as a caricature consisting of overblown and exaggerated behavior. This film is really about a group of narcissists, each more despicable than the other. What a group of disgusting, self-centered excuses for "human beings". "Another Happy Day" made me sick and angry. I only stayed with the film because I was a fan of Ezra Miller after seeing him in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". If you want to see a good film, watch that one.

Mitch Berger It makes complete sense that 'Another Happy Day' would have low overall ratings. Clearly it has been rated by the very type of people it depicts.For those of us, though, who feel deeply - who recognise a feeling of isolation and separateness in this life - this film is a masterpiece. Much like Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye", the characters here are awash in their circumstances. Their intelligence and insights set them apart from the crowd, but cannot save them. Rather, it imbues them with a sense of alienation and deep-seated loneliness. But all is not doom and gloom. There is a healing here. A subtle taste of humour. Even amidst the darkness, sparks of light catch us and remain.Ellen Barkin's performance is astonishing. We live alongside of her emotions. We live within her characters' desperation, in her helplessness, in her strength, and in the purity of her love. Her characterisation is complete. This is what acting can be. It is what acting should be. Ezra Miller, too, understands and becomes his character completely. Every nuance of this movie has been lovingly crafted with empathy and with understanding. At no time is the audience condescended to or spared. Sam Levinson has given us a masterpiece, and like most real masterpieces, the work is destined to be appreciated by only a few.If you are unafraid to enter into the grittiness and difficulties of familial relationships; if you are sensitive and intelligent and a lover of life; if you are a poet at heart, if you understand the separateness of individuation, then I must urge you, see this film. Like swimming in the dark ocean on a moonlit night, it is beautiful, deep, and untethering. It will leave you agasp.

shandragore Reading the professional critics' reviews of this powerful film is bewildering. Some of them perfectly reflect my sense of the deep truth it presents; others write it off as promising but fatally flawed.I want to focus on the painful (awful, even) sense of recognition I experienced as I watched. Early in my life I was profoundly and forever influenced by the writing of R. D. Laing, especially "The Politics of Experience." That title is much to the point here. I'm reminded of an old joke: Q. How many people does it take to have politics? A. Three, so that two of them can get together and talk about the other one. Laing portrays a world of interpersonal, ESPECIALLY familial, relationships in which violence is carried out, not in the realm of the physical, but in the realm of experience. He claims, and I say vividly demonstrates, that human beings routinely act with the purpose not merely of controlling others, but with the purpose of controlling how they experience themselves, their reality and the character of their oppressors. In Laing's terms, they are confronted with "forces of violence, masquerading as love."In these terms, "Another Happy Day" is dead on the mark: throughout the film Ellen Barkin's character is tormented by and struggles to overcome the mists and fog of the interlocking attitudes and prejudices that are the residual outcome of her family's progress through time. In terms of this struggle, she emerges as an existential heroine. More power to her; more power to all of us.