Happy Endings

Don Roos, the director who brought you The Opposite of Sex, follows up with this movie which feels to me like just another retelling of that pretty great film.

An interesting cast of Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhall, Tom Arnold and Jason Ritter, to name a few, tell these multiple stories of fucked-up relationships. Kudrow's character is dating a massage therapist and the two get suckered into filming a documentary in order to find out where Kudrow's son she gave away when she was young is. Gyllenhall's character falls for Ritter, only to end up going after his rich Dad, Arnold. And some other gay-related storylines.

Some of the stories are wonderful. But, there is this weird mesh of really wonderful acting from Kudrow and Gyllenhall mixed in with some not-so-hot acting from Ritter and a few others. There are moments that seem really bittersweet and true to life mixed with pieces of the script and scenarios that just aren't believable.

Grade: B-