Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

ginnynnig I mean, how many films out there you can find about dysfunctional families, drug abuse, self harm, loneliness, fear? There are so many.BUT, let me say a few other things about this movie. The cast is so great and well directed that this movie stands up dramatically above many movies I've seen of the same genre. There are so many characters, so many different personalities and all have their segment in the movie.The script was more developed than most drama-comedies out there and I think it contained a lot of situations that we don't often get to see or perhaps they're usually over simplified.I think that Ellen Barkin (I love her work since DownbyLaw, aw I know her words of that movie by heart) really gave an astonishing performance. I felt a lot for her character here, her deep sadness, loneliness, frustration and strength too. I felt like even though she tried so hard to make things work some things weren't going to change, some people would always f**k things up but she persevered, kept trying. Even her mother wasn't even trying to understand her or help her and she had to find all the strength within herself, I really liked this concept and I think many people can relate to it if you watch this movie closely.Ezra was great as always. Kinda often playing the sweet f****d up kid but I guess he's good at it (loved him so much in City Island).Possible flaw: The drug part, Ezra taking the grandfather's drugs twice made me wonder a bit.. I mean after a night of almost overdose is it normal to be all lucid and functional and to like even realize your lips are blue? I would think that after you take a really heavy drug you're like a zombie for a few days, but it would've made the movie even more dramatic if he wouldn't have woken up the next day so I thought it was better this way.I loved the daughter character too. I loved it especially on the part when she found courage to go talk to her dad and asked for some alone time with him and he said not without the wife. The fact she didn't say anything back was really interesting. That was so real, so sad and so relatable and she was good at portraying that, her facial expressions were very communicative.About the wealthiness of that family: American movies most of the times show people living such high quality life in such wealthy families but it's barely how most people actually live in real life. We're all so used to see movies like that, that we got used to the idea that we're just poor and the rest of the people out there must have better houses, like in the movies. We possibly even think that's what we should aim for and it's kinda sad that cinema did this to us.Other than that, I thought this movie was very true in terms relationships. It was very human and showed some real struggle, also, it didn't have a classic happy ending and I really appreciated that.Gosh the step mom's character was so the worst.Anyways, watch it, it's a good drama.

loulybob This is a wonderfully powerful film that manages to seriously portray family drama in a believable way - so much so that I could match situations in the film to similar situations that have happened at my own family gatherings. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, hence the lower rating, but for me it was a great snapshot into a family's life and all the issues that get dragged up when so many people come together with a lot of emotional baggage.Others have mentioned the amazing acting performances and they really do bring the characters and thus the story to life. You can't help but feel for Ellen Barkin's Lynn as she's getting picked at from all sides, both from judgement and disdain from outside her immediate family and from within with Ezra Miller's Elliot acting up the entire time.However, this film tends highly towards the drama end of comedy-drama, so much so that it contains very little comedy at all in my opinion so I feel the genre categorising is a little disingenuous.

martin lane Devastating no holds barred snapshot of American Family Life (as it IS not as we wish it was) may be TOO honest and wickedly insightful for many people (who prefer a little more sugar coating...a little less hysterically funny battery acid wit....oh well LIFE Ain't SWEET...get over it!!).Producer Ellen Barkin leads an absolutely astonishing cast...(and both big names and not so big names are stunning..there is not one phony or soft pedaled second in ANYof these performances).Besides the devastating Barkin (who tackles every emotion like a starving woman with no thought for vanity...every thought for human insight and character clarity)the standouts include Ellen Burstyn as a grandma from hell with Bride Of Frankenstein hair that is the LEAST frightening thing about her character and the stunning young Ezra Miller (who gets more accomplished and electric with every performance.I am actually having a hard time fathoming how this was NOT granted a major wide release...and I simply do not understand the low ratings many "casual" viewers give it...Maybe it is a wee bit too challenging and unflinching? Oh well...stick with your pretty bubblegum fantasy families...THIS is life...and it may not be beautiful...but it burns with a glorious flame in every frame of this lovely film.

shandragore Reading the professional critics' reviews of this powerful film is bewildering. Some of them perfectly reflect my sense of the deep truth it presents; others write it off as promising but fatally flawed.I want to focus on the painful (awful, even) sense of recognition I experienced as I watched. Early in my life I was profoundly and forever influenced by the writing of R. D. Laing, especially "The Politics of Experience." That title is much to the point here. I'm reminded of an old joke: Q. How many people does it take to have politics? A. Three, so that two of them can get together and talk about the other one. Laing portrays a world of interpersonal, ESPECIALLY familial, relationships in which violence is carried out, not in the realm of the physical, but in the realm of experience. He claims, and I say vividly demonstrates, that human beings routinely act with the purpose not merely of controlling others, but with the purpose of controlling how they experience themselves, their reality and the character of their oppressors. In Laing's terms, they are confronted with "forces of violence, masquerading as love."In these terms, "Another Happy Day" is dead on the mark: throughout the film Ellen Barkin's character is tormented by and struggles to overcome the mists and fog of the interlocking attitudes and prejudices that are the residual outcome of her family's progress through time. In terms of this struggle, she emerges as an existential heroine. More power to her; more power to all of us.