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Happiness Runs
The film Happiness Runs tells the story of a young man named Victor who contemplates leaving his commune, a polygamous cult, in order to escape with his childhood love.
26 May 1959, Wisconsin, USA
23 January 1944, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
26 February 1985, Ukiah, California, USA
21 April 1958, Gaffney, South Carolina, USA
9 July 1984, Denver, Colorado, USA
21 February 1984, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
19 August 1997, Denver, Colorado, USA
8 January 1989, Denver, Colorado, USA
7 May 1951
10 August 1990, Antioch, California, USA
4 January 1956, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
1 January 1954, New Rochelle, New York, USA
26 August 1982, Washington, USA
May 10, 2010
"Callow" would be too kind a description of this messy, unoriginal and dull treatise of a filmmaker's youthful years in a commune.May 19, 2010
Happiness Runs wears its air-quote truth like a protective cloak, to fend off dismissals of its narrative inadequacies: after all, if it's based on a true story, how could it not be infused with hidden profundity?May 07, 2010
An unexpectedly subtle coming-of-age film, Happiness Runs is also something of an allegory for Generation X's conservative reaction against the flower-power excesses of their baby boomer progenitors.May 05, 2010
Rarely has anything so lurid seemed so downright mundane.May 17, 2010
Sherman's macabre dream-fueled imagery elevates the material from solely navel-gazing, but only slightly.July 06, 2010
There's more boobs than brains in Adam Sherman's semi-true tale of heedless, bored debaucheryMay 05, 2010
O.K., life without structure or purpose leads to disillusionment and angst, but we knew that already. I'll be darned if I know what deeper lesson we're supposed to learn after suffering through 88 minutes of misery.May 04, 2010
The film builds on a fascinating cautionary tale, but doesn't develop its characters past whatever movie-of-the-week crisis each suffers from.May 07, 2010
This strident exposé may gladden the hearts of some anti-'60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience.May 13, 2010
An astoundingly bad memory piece that blows its potential dramatic heft at every turn.