HAPPY ENDINGS (2005)

Mamie is being blackmailed. This filmmaker named Nicky claims to know Mamie’s son – the one she gave up for adoption – but Nicky won’t introduce her to him unless he can film their reunion. Enter Javier, Mamie’s massage therapist boyfriend, who convinces Nicky to film him instead. Now they’re all making a movie about massage. And ‘happy endings’…

Charley has a longtime boyfriend named Gil. Their best friends, Pam and Diane, once tried using Gil as a sperm donor. They said his sperm didn’t take, but Charley thinks those control-freak lesbians are lying. Pam and Diane’s two-year-old son looks exactly like Gil. And it’s time to set the record straight…

Jude (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is pissed. Not at anyone in particular. Just in general. When her cousin kicks her out of the house, Jude shacks up with Otis, who’s still trying to convince his father, Frank, that he’s straight. Frank’s a widower. And he’s rich. So Jude decides to sleep with him, too. Really. The last thing she expected was to fall in love…

Happy Endings deftly weaves together multiple stories to create a sharp, witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life itself. A feast of buried secrets, missed opportunities and welcome second chances, this wildly original comedy proves that the happiest ending of all is the one you least expect.

Directed by: Don Roos
Written by: Don Roos
Starring: Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Clarke, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Ritter, David Sutcliffe
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Running Time: 128 minutes
Released: July 15th 2005
Filming: Filmed on location in LA. Filming started April 5th 2004 and filmed for 30 days

• Maggie Says:

“Don [Roos] is so comfortable with himself as a director, as a writer, as a thinker, as an artist. It’s fine with him to let someone else have an opinion. I had such a great time.” -- From Lions Gate Pubilcity

"I play a woman who's sleeping on her cousin's couch and can't get it together, but she has this incredible kind of wisdom. She has this love triangle with this gay kid and his dad. And she's so wise about it - wiser than I would be in my life about it. She's amazing; I love her." -- From Dark Horizons

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Google.com - Search "Maggie Gyllenhaal" + "Happy Endings"

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