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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...
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 finally be able to help him help himself.
Dr. Burke Ryan (Eckhart) is on the precipice of a major multimedia deal, but the therapist who asks his patients to openly confront their pain is secretly unable to take his own advice.
Eloise Chandler (Aniston) has sworn off men and decided to focus on her floral business. However, when she meets Burke at the hotel where he's speaking, there is an instant attraction. But will two people who have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love another chance?
As each struggles with the hurt of love and loss, they realize that in order to move forward, they need to let go of the past. And if they can, they'll find that, sometimes, love happens when you least expect it. --© Universal
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer, Joe Anderson, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen
Director: Brandon Camp
Director: Brandon Camp
Screenwriter: Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson
Producer: Scott Stuber, Mike Thompson
Composer: Christopher Young
Studio: Universal Pictures
Reviews for Love Happens
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.
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.
A glossy, meandering wallow of a film with personable stars and predictable storylines. Blandly forgettable even with Aniston at her most winsome.
What a title. Not that this crybaby romantic drama deserves much better.
Bland, corny, sophomoric, unimaginative and painfully contrived with two leads who have no charisma or chemistry together. [It's] a great cure for insomnia.
Every situation in the movie is obvious; the foreshadowing is so blatantly telegraphed you'd think the film was produced by Western Union.
Attractively shot but dramatically inert, this isn’t persuasive enough to qualify as a tearjerker, and neither does it work as a substantive comedy.
Excise the love story, and there's a pretty good movie buried within Love Happens struggling to get out, mostly to little avail.
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
This romantic-comedy is the kind of cloying, saccharine-saturated date movie that only the most deluded of fools in love would enjoy.
Although the film begins promisingly, it proves to be little more than a soap opera.
Despite its two appealing leads, Love Happens is, as the kids say, not happening.
Love Happens - if they say so, but we're still looking for proof beyond what's seen on the screen.
Love supposedly happens in Love Happens. We'll have to take their word for it.
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