Happy Endings (2005) on Netflix
Mamie Toll gave up a child for adoption, and a filmmaker arrives with word of where the son lives. Jude moves in with Otis, a drummer, and his father, Frank McKee.
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Plot summary
Mamie Toll counsels at an abortion clinic and shares her life with Javier, a massage therapist. Nineteen years earlier she and her stepbrother Charley Peppitone had a child, and she gave the baby away. Nicky Kunitz, a would-be filmmaker, turns up with the address of the son and wants to blackmail her into letting him shoot the reunion. Charley now runs his father's restaurant with Gil, his partner, and the two are weighing whether to ask their friends Pam and Diane about the paternity of their son. Jude, thrown out of her cousin's house, lodges with Otis, a drummer, and Otis's widowed father, Frank McKee.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Happy Endings (2005)
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- The film's interlocking stories about Los Angeles natives led critic Alissa Quart to coin the term "hyperlink cinema" in her review of Happy Endings for the journal Film Comment.
- Gwyneth Paltrow, who had worked with Don Roos on Bounce, was originally slated to play Jude before Maggie Gyllenhaal was cast, and Ray Liotta turned down the role of Frank McKee.
- Don Roos wrote the part of Mamie expressly for Lisa Kudrow after directing her in his earlier film The Opposite of Sex, which he also wrote.
