Another Happy Day: movie review
Dislikable movie characters don鈥檛 always result in dislikable movies but that鈥檚 certainly the case with Sam Levinson鈥檚 鈥�Another Happy Day,鈥� a dysfunctional family meltdown movie about an impending wedding that only grows more aggravating as it unwinds.
Ellen Barkin plays a dysfunctional mother with three dysfunctional children, one of whom, played by Ezra Miller, is a scabrous dope fiend, another, played by Kate Bosworth, who cuts herself with razors. Add to this the mother鈥檚 dysfunctional ex-husband (Thomas Haden Church) and his dysfunctional new wife (Demi Moore), plus assorted dysfunctional outliers, and you have quite a crew. The family patriarch (George Kennedy) isn鈥檛 dysfunctional exactly, but his pacemaker is, so that sort of counts. The only vaguely sane person in the movie is the family matriarch, played by Ellen Burstyn, who, perhaps not entirely coincidentally, gives the film鈥檚 only notable performance. Grade: D+ (Rated R for teen drug/alcohol abuse, pervasive language including sexual references, and brief graphic nudity.)
