Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

best movie i've ever seen.

A Disappointing Continuation

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Another Happy Day is a black dramedy that features an ensemble cast such as Ellen Barkin, Kate Bosworth, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Haden Church and Demi Moore.It is all about a dysfunctional family that gathers together on a family weekend.One weekend,every family member gathers together at the Annapolis estate of Lynn's parents for the discussion of the marriage of her eldest son Dylan,who accompanied by his three younger children.Lyn's other children,Elliot and Alice arrives as well having issues of their own with the former who isn't really in a good relationship with her mother and the latter having a hard time fighting her demons.Worse things happen when Lynn is demanded to be heard by her parents and her judgmental sisters as well by her ex-husband Paul and his second wife,Patty.The film was difficult to watch since everyone - let me repeat that everyone - is dislikeable and unbearable. It isn't funny considering that many viewers see films to relax and enjoy a good movie.Unfortunately,the people in it add stress to the viewer.What also is unrealistic is the fact that everyone seem to hate each other and managed to live in the same roof.Despite having talented actors and actresses involved in it,they are unable to lift it from being a poor movie into at least an average one.Finally,the good screenplay did not help as well as viewer could not feel nor empathize with the characters in it.

What a surprise this was. Wasn't expecting much, due to mixed reception, but immediately I realized this is not only a drama, it's a dark comedy, and added that to the description here at IMDb. The title "Another happy day" is completely ironical, something I can see some reviewers of this really haven't grasped. There's simply no happiness here.It's a story about an extremely dysfunctional family, the Helmans (as in Hell mans) and it's tragic, this family event, which makes everything come to the surface. This is a comedy filled with black humor, mixed with life tragedies and lots if irony, which obviously many must have had problems in understanding. Maybe you've got to know a dysfunctional family to appreciate this film, or even be a part of it. The film is a gathering if most common problems which may occur in lives, though it might be a big much since everything herd is within a family.Drug abuse, depression, self destructive behavior, therapy, domestic violence, alcoholism, difficult parents-children relations, adultery, Alzheimer's, neighboring conflicts, family secrets, suicidal tendencies... It's all here. The film resembles a couple of other tragic comic family disasters I've seen, like "Festen" ("The Celebration"), August: Osage County" and "Cabin fever"/("Når nettene blir lange"), "In bed with Santa"/("Tomten er far til alla barnen") and even "Hotel New Hampshire" though I haven't seen the latter since it came out. Well I tend to enjoy these kinds of tragedy portrays, and this is up among them.Maybe not great to watch either, if you're right in a family crises, if you don't then find this comforting. Someone always got it worse. Anyway, this is beautifully acted, not only by Ellen Barkin, which is perfect in a tragedy like this, but by the whole ensemble. I simply wax blown away by Ezra Miller and Kate Bosworth, Ellen Burstyn is as always great. I completely enjoyed the play with differences in a big family.The film is greatly summed up in the son Elliot asking the bartender to give him three scotch whiskeys. The bartender asks "How old are you?" before getting this answer: -I'm 17. This is my family, and this is Hell! The bartender serving the three drinks without any hesitation.Lovely dark comedy!

Watch and see people's real lives. The acting in this movie is superb, as one sees a group of dysfunctional people interact. A teenager with a drug problem is accurately if sadly depicted, as are friends, a mother confronting his problems but accomplishing little, indeed aggravating the issues.Perhaps the central point is how little some people know about interacting with others, as this dysfunctional family increases problems, aggravates family's members, and fails to understand one another.Yes, this is depressing and it may well hit a little too close to home. But if you want an emotional experience that leaves you understanding a little more about human experience, see this.This should win awards and I'd rank it as one of the top 100 movies of all time.

Sam Levinson's (son of director Barry) 2011 family drama, which he also wrote, is one of those rather frenetic affairs, with the camera eavesdropping on the all-too-often trite and somewhat banal conversations of a probably all-too-typical U.S. family. Events surrounding an imminent wedding open up old wounds as family members, estranged relatives and sick elderly parents all bring to the fore their own dilemmas.I viewed it on Sky Movies Indie and it has 'indie' written all over it, for which, on this occasion, isn't necessarily a good thing.The cast, which combines talented and respected names - such as Ellen Barkin, Demi Moore, Ellen Burstyn and Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) mix with relative unknowns but this doesn't make the mix sweeter or the recipe any richer. The acting veers toward heated melodrama rather than fine and nuanced performances, leading you to find it hard to like or bond with any of them.I don't follow British soaps and whilst I'm not directly comparing this with that, I think an affiliation and enjoyment of everyday family issues would get a lot more from this than I did. The comedy element is often injected oddly, so we are not sure if it's funny, in bad taste or just odd people saying odd things.What will probably put most off, or at least completing the whole disc is its length; almost two hours isn't going to be a huge pile of fun if you're not following/enjoying any movie. The uninspired direction and often suddenly changing scenarios hardly help for a smooth ride, either.So, a movie that's maybe for you but sadly wasn't for me.