Happy Tears English Movie 2010
Drama Movie
Posey plays Jayne, a compulsive neurotic in profound denial who has convinced herself that people can’t see right through her (she likes telling everyone she has quit cigarettes and alcohol, even though she clearly has done neither).

Happy Tears English Film Review :

Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy something-year-old father Joe (Rip Torn). Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne refuses to believe that their father’s condition is that serious. Jayne’s compulsion to escape reality only increases Laura’s attempts to yank her back down to earth. Meanwhile, Joe still sings and plays the blues on his prized guitar, and the lively widower even has a new “ladyfriend,” shameless and sassy Shelly (Ellen Barkin). But as the visible moments of their father’s impending senility increase, the family dynamics spiral out of control. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives – Laura’s busy environmentalist work schedule and mother of three small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson (Christian Camargo). Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! In the end, any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones

Jayne lives in San Francisco and is married to a rich painter (Christian Camargo) whose mental problems have kept the couple from starting a family. So Jayne runs around the city happily spending her husband’s money on such things as $2,000 boots.

Then her sister Laura (Demi Moore) calls, asking Jayne to come home to Pittsburgh to help care for their father Joe (Rip Torn), who suffers from a rare form of dementia. Posey and Moore are utterly believable as sisters who retained their bond from childhood even though their lives headed in radically different directions (Laura leads a modest middle-class life in Pittsburgh with her husband and kids). Each has something the other secretly envies: Laura would love Jayne’s financial freedom, while Jayne desperately craves to be a mother.

The rapport between Posey and Moore is pleasurable and convincing – there is an unspoken complexity in the way they communicate with each other, as real siblings do – and Happy Tears initially seems to be a study of a disjointed but reunited family forced to regain its bearings. But writer-director MitchellLichtenstein (Teeth) has a different plan in mind, throwing in extraneous supporting characters such as Joe’s girlfriend Shelly (a deglamorized Ellen Barkin), who claims to be a nurse but whose dirty teeth, restless manner and perpetually dirt-caked fingernails clearly mark her as a junkie.

The character isn’t just unbelievable: Her presence also distracts Lichtenstein from the film’s true center (Camargo, as Jayne’s husband, fares even worse: His character is so underwritten, he’s practically incomprehensible).Lichtenstein, son of the famed artist Roy Lichtenstein , also throws in occasional fantasy sequences (the lovers in a tryst float on giant jellyfish) that do the movie no favors. Flashbacks meant to be poignant, such as Jayne’s memory of her late mother in a hospital bed, come off as pedestrian and unnecessary.

Happy Tears grows more conventional and less involving as it unfolds, eventually taken over by Jayne’s hunt for a hidden treasure Joe is supposed to have buried in the backyard. And the requisite Big Secret From the Past that Laura reveals in an effort to get through Jayne’s happy-go-lucky nonchalance (“Gee, it must be a happy place inside that brain of yours”) lands with a deadening thud. On its way to a climax that ends every plot strand on an unrealistically upbeat and pat note, Happy Tears loses sight of what made the film so engrossing in the first place. And by film’s end, Jayne remains as self-obsessed and neurotic as ever. She’s just a lot happier now, having learned to accept she’s just a teeny bit crazy.

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Happy Tears English Movie 2010
Drama Movie
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Genre: Drama
Starring: Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Release Date:February 19th, 2010
Studio:Roadside Attractions