You will want to have your tissues ready for the powerful emotional punch delivered by this film. Screenwriters Camp and Thompson break the mold with a story told with sincerity and honesty.
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09/18/09
Love Happens (2009)
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Reviews Counted:94
Fresh:17
Rotten:77
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Love Happens is a dull, chemistry-free affair that under-utilizes its appealing leads.
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $22,927,390
Synopsis: Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might... [More]
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer
Director: Brandon Camp
Reviews for Love Happens
Love Happens is a comedy in mourning, a romance so sad that even Jennifer Aniston at her most engaging can't save it.
09/16/09
Hiring irritating actors Judy Greer and Dan Fogler to play buddy roles in Happens is a terrific way to state to the audience that filmmakers have little to no imagination, looking to the routine and the tiresome to squeak by
09/18/09
The film has an uneven tone, unsure whether to mock [Eckhart's] rudimentary words of wisdom or play up his good intentions.
09/17/09
Top CriticI think this country really needs movies like this. People are so freaked out about death of natural causes that they protest against health care. Imagine if they ever had to deal with a tragic death.
09/18/09
Love Happens is a weepie about the grieving process, mainly my own. Two hours of my life have been brutally stolen from me, and I need closure.
09/18/09
For a sparkly star vehicle with aspirations no greater than highlighting the perfect bone structure of its featured players, Love Happens makes a good case for the three-act formula of a skillfully crafted Hollywood romance.
09/17/09
While Love Happens is the prototypical big studio weeper, it still has some impact on your funny bone and heart.
09/18/09
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10/02/09
Not content with being a romcom that’s trite and shallow about love, it’s gone one step further — it’s trite and shallow about death, too.
10/16/09
The film is part romance, part drama, part Seattle travelogue, with Washington emerging as the only true winner. Along with the benefactors of the movie's copious product placements, that is.
09/18/09
A glossy, meandering wallow of a film with personable stars and predictable storylines. Blandly forgettable even with Aniston at her most winsome.
10/09/09
Love isn't inspired, it's hammered flat like Khrushchev's shoe.
09/27/09
Falls between romance and drama without really satisfying either.
10/09/09
Top CriticWhat a title. Not that this crybaby romantic drama deserves much better.
10/09/09
Bland, corny, sophomoric, unimaginative and painfully contrived with two leads who have no charisma or chemistry together. [It's] a great cure for insomnia.
09/18/09
Aaron Eckhart surprised me with the depth of his performance as a self-help guru who needs help himself.
09/19/09
Every situation in the movie is obvious; the foreshadowing is so blatantly telegraphed you'd think the film was produced by Western Union.
09/30/09
[The director] goes for the melodramatic jugular, knocking over the pitcher of lemonade his characters have so faithfully made from their lemons, and souring the entire film.
09/17/09
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