Hang in there Jen. You can do better.
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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
Other stuff happens too, all of it strained and dull.
09/18/09
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
More truthful (equally generic) titles might include: "Death Happens," "Psychobabble Happens" or "Lazy Screenwriters Make Love Happen Even If The Leads Have No Chemistry"
09/18/09
An ill-conceived dramady about love and grief.
09/18/09
Love Happens—but not much else in this heartfelt but dull romantic dirge.
09/18/09
Love happens. Doesn't it, though? So do other, less pleasant fragrances. This much is clear in the well-acted fraud co-written and directed, woozily, by first-time feature filmmaker Brandon Camp.
09/18/09
Not that the grieving process shouldn’t be addressed in a movie, but this one feels increasingly cooked up.
09/18/09
Yes this film will only target to a certain demographic, but for those who love these whimsical love tales you will be A OK with this one!
09/18/09
Love Happens is an inorganic soap opera: It leaves you with a sudsy residue.
09/18/09
Love does indeed happen, though it sure takes its sweet time, in this this meandering drama.
09/18/09
Dramedy about grief and love likely won't interest kids.
09/18/09
the worst romantic comedy of the year
09/18/09
There are no sparks, not the slightest sign of chemistry, between Eckhart and Aniston. They might be Hansel and Gretel wandering endlessly through tame thickets of feeling.
09/18/09
The film was a winner right up until the last ten minutes, when it preceded to punch me in the face with every cliché possible.
09/18/09
Love Happens - if they say so, but we're still looking for proof beyond what's seen on the screen.
09/18/09
While Love Happens is the prototypical big studio weeper, it still has some impact on your funny bone and heart.
09/18/09
I'd never have expected that the movie would be saved, just a little, from being complete bullsh*t by the presence of Aaron Eckhart.
09/18/09
Pure Hollywood hokum, with plotting that's practically impossible...graceless product placement, cutesy situations, and neatly tied bows.
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
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