Happy Tears Page #5

Synopsis: Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. 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 hopes that their father's condition isn't that serious. Joe is still singing and playing his old guitar, and the lively widower even has a new "ladyfriend," shameless and sassy Shelly. But as the visible moments of their father's impending senility increase, so do the dysfunctional family dynamics. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura's busy schedule as an environmentalist and mother of two small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson. Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and e
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Production: Roadside Attractions
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.2
Metacritic:
35
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
R
Year:
2009
92 min
Website
35 Views


doesn't even want to have a child.

He never did.

He's afraid he'll be like his father.

That he'll pass on his neuroses or...

What do l do?

l think...

the truth is out there to see...

if you really want to see it.

Like you and Laurent?

You two have an arrangement

or something, right?

Well...

He says...

He says he doesn't need

to sleep with men anymore.

l knew it.

l mean, you know, at least he's

always been honest about it.

But we'll see.

And l...

l can bend.

l don't know how far.

Not as far as Mommy.

And neither should you.

But l love Jackson.

Mommy loved Daddy.

Should she have stayed?

This way.

- Joe, stop it!

- Come on!

- What are you doing?

- Hey, stop it!

- You were supposed to be watching him!

- Really!

l swear, l was.

- Christ.

- He's doing really good.

- Watch it, watch it!

- Yes!

Stop it! Stop it!

- Dad, get down from there!

- Let's have another try at it.

Get back. Get back. Get back.

- Get om!

- Watch out. Don't get on there!

Hey, get down. Get down.

Get down there.

Joe!

He's finally tearing it down.

- Joe!

- Yo!

- It ain't funny!

- What isn't funny?

lt's for our girls!

Joe! Joe!

Mallory, please, step down, will you?

Please, sweetie.

Step down, dar- Thank you.

- Oh, my God! Joe!

- You get the hell out of there, too!

What is he- Jayne?

- Get out of there!

- Jayne!

Hold on.

Oh, Dad!

Get it, Joe!

You know,

online l found an excellent facility

- less than an hour from home.

- Yeah?

Now we got it.

Put it down.

lt costs a fortune,

- but l think you can amord it.

- l can amord it.

- Yes, l can.

- On the right.

Yeah. There you go.

What is that?

Yes!

- What is it, Dad?

- Sisters!

Joe, what have you got?

Those girls aren't safe.

Do something.

Mr. Deacks,

l've got your guitar over here.

Care to play us a tune?

What's he doing?

Oh, my God!

- Girls, look out!

- Look!

Be careful! Oh, my God!

He's not full of sh*t!

He's not!

Oh, girls!

Quarters!

He's crazy.

Joe, you are the man!

You think...

You think she

would've done anything

if she'd known about it?

All Joe's girls.

Maybe she would've left.

Gone to Japan.

She did know.

l refuse to believe that.

Maybe she didn't.

- It smells of her.

- Mommy?

No, Shelly.

You know, l might have felt

sorry for the woman

if she hadn't stolen Mommy's pendant.

l guess that's petty of me.

l'm a bad person.

No, you're not.

lt meant something to you, too.

Hi.

lt's nice.

lt is, isn't it?

l thought you were supposed

to be the crazy one.

Me, too.

You can come home.

- The doctors-

- l will.

ln time for-

What if he's like me?

He won't be.

l mean, he's gonna

be his own little person.

Don't cry.

l'm not.

These are just-

They're just happy tears.

How long till we move back home?

Very soon.

l'm gonna have my own room, right?

Yep.

- Me, too?

- Yep.

But shh, because your daddy's

trying to work.

Eli.

Yes. It's called ''Study for Entitled.''

Let's get you out of those.

l can't. l'm a married man.

Yes, l know. l'll try to control myself.

Let's go.

- That's hurting.

- That's it. Okay. Here we go.

Right in, right in, right in, right in.

Guess what. We're gonna have a room

made out of Grandpa's old quarters.

Well, not exactly, sweetie.

They're gonna be paid for

by Grandpa's quarters.

A lot of quarters.

Help your mother, Laura.

Help your mother with this, will you?

Daddy, she's perfectly capable.

l have all my ladies with me now.

- All my ladies.

- That's right.

Well, who's in here?

Your little sister.

Okay, then.

l'd like to make a toast to rebirth.

To a healthy baby.

- Thank you.

- To creation,

wherever it may come from.

Yes.

Cheers.

Here's to you.

lt's wonderful.

Got an anniversary coming up?

Christie's auction house in New York

might have just the thing.

A canister of tea for $100,000.

Dealer Kyle Winters is here to explain.

Kyle, thank you for joining us.

Karen, the pleasure is entirely mine.

Oh, my God.

The pineapple form of the tea caddy

was rumored to exist, but so far

no genuine examples

have actually surfaced.

But, Kyle, a hundred grand?

Minimum, l should think.

You know, l wasn't looking for this.

No, you know, l knew someday

l'd find something,

but l- l had no idea it would be this.

lt's funny.

Not till we find it,

whatever it is,

you don't know what it will look like.

l guess that's what

this box represents to me.

Can't put a price on that.

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Mitchell Lichtenstein

Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein (born March 10, 1956) is an American actor, writer, producer and director. The son of Isabel (née Wilson) and Roy Lichtenstein, he studied acting at Bennington College in Vermont.In Ang Lee's film The Wedding Banquet (1993), Lichtenstein played the partner of a gay Taiwanese man living in the United States who is forced to marry by his parents. Other credits include Streamers (1983). He produced, wrote, and directed the 2007 black comedy horror film Teeth, about the pitfalls and power of a girl as a living example of the vagina dentata myth. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews.His film Happy Tears premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. His film Angelica has been selected to be screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.He is openly gay. more…

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