Movie #1348 "The Happys" was a fun movie I watched at the Phoenix Film Festival a couple of weeks ago (and just got to blogging on it -- it's been a bit busy these days). It mainly follows a "good girl" who gives up her life in the midwest to follow her boyfriend to Hollywood when he gets a break in film (he's a pretty boy). She's all by herself and knows no one but the boyfriend , so she keeps busy cooking/baking for him --- she delivers lunches, dinners, etc. which becomes futile after a while when he continually reminds her they have a great catering table available on the set. So then she turns her focus on the food truck community, trying to find her niche in this new environment. When her boyfriend is bedding down a coworker and she catches him, she turns her attention to the agorophobic neighbor for companionship. There's more in the film as she journeys to find her self worth. She's not the only one on a journey, though --- her boyfriend and the agoraphobic also both have secondary stories that are equally entertaining. I enjoyed all the fleshed out characters here, and the movie is infused with a lot of humor along with scenes that are very emotional and that deal with real life social problems. I would give it 4 stars out of 5.
THE HAPPYS 2016 1 hour and 27 minutes.
Twenty-one year old Tracy walks in on her boyfriend Mark having sex with a man and decides to leave him. After assessing her limited options, she returns to Mark with a deal-if he agrees to marry her, she'll forget the incident ever happened. Mark accepts her terms, but neither fully understands the sacrifices they have to make. As their relationship deteriorates, Tracy's world opens up when she befriends the quirky residents in her Los Feliz neighborhood: Sebastian, a troubled recluse who closed the door to society after being bitten by a poisonous spider; Luann, a former child star and true free spirit; Krista, Mark's hard-charging talent manager; Jonathan, a gay magazine reporter; and Ricky, a hot Mexican with a failing food truck. As Tracy discovers her sense of self and true passion for cooking, she is a catalyst that forces them all to grow and connect in unforeseen ways .
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