Happy Endings

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Happy Endings

R

2005

2h 12m

Comedy

Drama

LGBTQ+

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Filmmaker Nicky (Jesse Bradford) offers to track down the son that Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) gave up for adoption nearly two decades before. Meanwhile, Mamie's stepbrother (and the father of her child), Charley (Steve Coogan), along with his boyfriend, Gil, try to find out what became of the sperm Gil donated to a lesbian couple. Finally, singer Jude (Maggie Gyllenhaal) becomes entangled in a love triangle with androgynous drummer Otis (Jason Ritter) and his conservative father (Tom Arnold).

Critics Consensus

Despite strong individual performances, the overlong, disjointed plot of Happy Endings self-indulgently rambles.

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Heather Havrilesky

Salon.com

07/16/2019

A remarkably clever ensemble film.

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Bill Muller

Arizona Republic

08/11/2005

3/5

Intriguing but overlong and indulgent, the work of a writer too in love with his characters.

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Andrew Sarris

Observer

08/11/2005

Serves as a relaunching pad for the magical talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jude.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

04/15/2009

B

Potent social satire mixes with multiple characters incapable of telling the truth, especially to themselves, in writer/director Don Roos' enjoyable comedy of deception and dysfunction.

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Prairie Miller

Long Island Press

10/05/2007

There's a little fanciful magic to spread over this flighty romance on the run, or at least enough to take that hackneyed notion of the happy ending, and fashion something fresh and new.

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David Noh

Film Journal International

03/01/2007

Rarely has a film started so brilliantly and then so willfully shot itself directly in the foot.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 05/29/2025

LOL, a funny and successful comedy, drama and pride movie in 2 hours and 12 minutes. Rated R for Sexual Content, Language and Some Drug Use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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11/29/2020

When Laura dern dropped the affairs news that was the ultimate check mate . There was a lot going on in this movie but I enjoyed it and thought it was very original 3.6

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08/04/2016

"Tom's wife is like most of us. Nothing but opinions.

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07/16/2016

Hard to believe this funny and interesting movie gets such a low Tomatometer rating. It's a gem.

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06/04/2015

Love this show! Sad it only got 3 seasons....

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05/30/2015

There are some strong performances in Happy Endings. The problem is that Don Roos' movie is that it feels like an entire TV dramedy has been squeezed into one movie.

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Nicky (Jesse Bradford) offers to track down the son that Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) gave up for adoption nearly two decades before. Meanwhile, Mamie's stepbrother (and the father of her child), Charley (Steve Coogan), along with his boyfriend, Gil, try to find out what became of the sperm Gil donated to a lesbian couple. Finally, singer Jude (Maggie Gyllenhaal) becomes entangled in a love triangle with androgynous drummer Otis (Jason Ritter) and his conservative father (Tom Arnold).

Director: Don Roos
Producer: Marc Platt, Bobby Cohen, Bob Yari, Mark Gill
Screenwriter: Don Roos
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Stratus Films, Capital Arts Entertainment, Lionsgate Films
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 15, 2005, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.3M
Runtime: 2h 12m