Another Happy Day

Another Happy Day
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Directed by	Sam Levinson
Produced by	Ellen Barkin Todd Traina Michael Nardelli Pamela Lynn Fielder Johnny Lin Salli Newman Celine Rattray Gordon Bijelonic Datari Turner
Written by	Sam Levinson
Starring	Ellen Barkin Kate Bosworth Ellen Burstyn Thomas Haden Church George Kennedy Ezra Miller Demi Moore
Music by	Ólafur Arnalds
Cinematography	Ivan Strasburg
Editing by	Ray Hubley
Studio	Mandalay Vision
Distributed by	Phase 4 Films
Release date(s)	January 23, 2011 (2011-01-23) (Sundance)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Another Happy Day is a 2011 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Sam Levinson.

Plot

Lynn (Ellen Barkin) was married to Paul (Thomas Haden Church), but they split up on bad terms, and Lynn took custody of their daughter Alice (Kate Bosworth) while Paul got their son Dylan (Michael Nardelli). Years later, now that Dylan is getting married, Lynn is attending the wedding at her parents' estate, with her younger sons Elliot (Ezra Miller) and Ben (Daniel Yelsky) in tow; Elliott is a cynical substance abuser and Ben prefers to look at life through a camera than confront the world head on. Meanwhile, Alice deals with her anxieties through cutting, Dylan hasn't spoken to Lynn in years, Lynn is fearful of Paul and his wife Patty (Demi Moore), Lynn's mother, Doris (Ellen Burstyn), blames her daughter for her family's many troubles, and her father (George Kennedy) is in poor health and hardly cares what's happening around him. To the surprise of no one, all this has left Lynn an emotional wreck, and she's not sure just how she's going to get through the day.^[1]

Cast

• Ellen Barkin as Lynn Hellman
• Kate Bosworth as Alice Hellman
• Ellen Burstyn as Doris
• Thomas Haden Church as Paul
• George Kennedy
• Ezra Miller as Elliot Hellman
• Demi Moore as Patty
• Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Bonnie
• Michael Nardelli as Dylan
• Daniel Yelsky as Ben Hellman
• Eamon O'Rourke as Brandon
• Jeffrey DeMunn as Lee
• Diana Scarwid

Release

Another Happy Day was screened at the 27th Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2011.^[2] The film also screened at South by Southwest on March 18, 2011; at the Woodstock Film Festival on September 23; at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 12; and was scheduled to be released theatrically nationwide on November 18.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Another Happy Day at the Internet Movie Database
• Another Happy Day at AllRovi
• Another Happy Day at Rotten Tomatoes
• Another Happy Day at Metacritic