Happy Tears: movie review
In Mitchell Lichtenstein鈥檚 鈥�Happy Tears,鈥� Parker Posey and Demi Moore play two sisters, Jayne and Laura, who return to the house they grew up in when their cantankerous father, Joe, played by Rip Torn, goes a bit wobbly in the head.
This is the kind of movie where life lessons are posted every quarter-hour. (I timed it.) The sisters, who grew apart, grow back together; Joe, with his crack-addict girlfriend (Ellen Barkin) in tow, learns the meaning of 鈥� well, I鈥檓 not sure he learns much of anything. He might as well have the word 鈥渞ascal鈥� pasted on his forehead.
Lots of tears are shed but, despite the film鈥檚 title, not many of them seemed very happy. Grade: C- (Rated R for language, drug use, and some sexual content including brief nudity.)
