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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0720917548623
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 29827
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Description:
Happy Hour tells the story of Tulley (Anthony LaPaglia), a self proclaimed 'drinker with a writing problem', who struggles to finish his stalled novel while working at a dead end job in a New York City ad agency. Teamed with his best friend and drinking buddy, Levine (Eric Stoltz), Tulley parties away his nights to try to forget the writer's block that plagues him. In his favorite watering hole one night Tulley meets Natalie (Caroleen Feeney), a strong willed school teacher, and an unlikely affair begins. She matches him drink for drink, wisecrack for wisecrack and quietly challenges him to fulfill his promise just as the toll of too many drunken nights begins to catch up with him. With his life and health at a turning point, Tulley sets out to finish his book before his years of carousing finish him. Alternately hilarious and heart breaking, Happy Hour, is the dramatic and emotional story of a gifted writer and the two people who love him.
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Rating: - Final hours
Happy Hour is an Indie ensemble piece shot in NYC. The film has a reasonably good script and is well acted especially by Anthony LaPaglia. Caroleen Feeney and Eric Stoltz also do a nice job as supporting cast in this depressing moral love story about a writer and his alcoholic downfall. The film boasts very black comedy and some nicely charged scenes as the three actors work very well together. Tully (LaPaglia) steals the show with one of his best overall performances. There is even a bit character part with Robert Vaughn who plays Tully's rich and successful father. All in all this is a good, not a great film. The chemistry between Tully and Natalie (Feeney) is at times intense and their attraction is believable. Stoltz who plays Levine, Tully's best friend does a fine job as well. I have always liked Eric Stoltz's laid back acting style and he is free to use this style in this script. All in all this is a moving story and also a depressing one. I did have some problems with this film. The writer/director Mike Bencivenga, found the need to use several cheap pranks performed by both Levine and Tully in thier workplace to get laughs. Even though there is verbal sparring between a younger exceutive in the company and Tully the use of of these cheap pranks doesn't really drive the story the way it could have. The raw downward spiral of Tully's health is the force that keeps you watching. Tully is a drunk, so finding tears for his demise is difficult. One is led to liking Tully's duo of friends and ... Read More
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