Falls between romance and drama without really satisfying either.
Love Happens (2009)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:1
Rotten:21
Average Rating:3.5/10
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
Everyone is trying to re-invent the rom-com at the moment and the makers of Love Happens are no exceptions. The formula they’ve come up with is to remove all the comedy, which is a bold choice.
How can we, as a species, tolerate Jennifer Aniston with her blurry expression of emotional bravery?
Until it erupts in tears, Love Happens dawdles along uncertainly as though debating exactly how to season its morose story with enough attempted witticisms to keep the audience from dozing off.
Excise the love story, and there's a pretty good movie buried within Love Happens struggling to get out, mostly to little avail.
That this superficial romance between a successful self-help author and a nurturing florist is also a film about overcoming the tragedy of losing a loved one only makes its clichéd insipidity that much more irksome.
The film has an uneven tone, unsure whether to mock [Eckhart's] rudimentary words of wisdom or play up his good intentions.
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