Happy Tears
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Parker Posey
Demi Moore
Rip Torn
Ellen Barkin
Christian Camargo
Film Details
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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 refuses to believe that their father's condition is that serious. Jayne's compulsion to escape reality only increases Laura's attempts to yank her back down to earth. Meanwhile, Joe still sings and plays the blues on his prized 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, the family dynamics spiral out of control. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura's busy environmentalist work schedule and mother of three 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 even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! In the end, any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones.
Director
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Cast
Parker Posey
Demi Moore
Rip Torn
Ellen Barkin
Christian Camargo
Billy Magnussen
Sebastian Roché
Roger Rees
Susan Blommaert
Victor Slezak
Patti D'arbanville
Celia Weston
Crew
James M Anderson
Scott M. Anderson
Paul Avery
Michelle Baker
Kerry Barden
Stacey Battat
Pete Bucossi
Timothy Debaets
Gregory Elias
Mark O. Forker
Jonathan Gray
Jonathan Gray
Theodora Katsoulogiannakis
Joe Landauer
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Richard Lormand
Louise Lovegrove
Jan Mclaughlin
Eric Milano
Robert Miller
Michael Moffatt
Tora Peterson
Joyce Pierpoline
Sarah Rubenstein
Tricia Sawyer
Paul Schnee
Andrew Schwertseger
Tara Smith
Canella Williams
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter February 19, 2010
Released in United States February 2009
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Competition) February 5-15, 2009.
Released in United States Winter February 19, 2010
Released in United States February 2009 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Competition) February 5-15, 2009.)
