Happy Accidents
2000 Directed by Brad Anderson
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Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he's sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. But as Ruby tells her therapist about Sam, in flashbacks we see someone not of this world. In fact, Sam informs Ruby that he's from the future, 2470 to be exact, travelling back in time to avoid prosecution.
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Film #86 of The December Project
Ever since I saw this a couple of years ago, I've grown to love it more and more each time I see it. It's either about a time traveller named Sam Deed from the year 2470 or it's about a man who thinks he's a time traveller from the year 2470. Ruby, the woman Sam falls in love with in the year 1999, has trouble deciding which one he truly is. She's a New Yorker who has grown pretty desperate to settle down and find "the one," but she's had terrible luck with men. Sam seems like exactly what she needs: sweet, polite, a little nerdy, pretty strange, but sincere. She gets so caught…
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Basically a low budget, romantic version of Twelve Monkeys. The slight twist being that this time, the audience isn't quite sure if Sam really is a time traveler or not.
Solid performances with an indie sensibility. Not so much so that it feels pretentious or trite however. Quite enjoyable actually; especially as the couple's relationship really gets to the root of the "problem."
An underseen gem is my guess.
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I think I wouldn't have liked this half as much as I did with different actors. Vincent D'Onofrio and Marisa Tomei really bring character to any role they play. There were definite slow periods in the movie, but they kept it alive.
D'Onofrio's character claims to be from hundreds of years in the future. He comes back in time and he and Tomei fall in love. She's not sure whether he's crazy or just playing around, or really from the future.
I really liked the freeze frame and zooming in that they did several times throughout the movie. It had a 70's feel to it. It especially pleased me that turned out to be a plot point towards the end.
This was an extremely unique take on the romance movie genre. So much so that I even hesitate calling it a romance movie. -
So glad that somebody recommended that I go back and watch this because it was well worth the watch. Such a great love story about a sane man and insane woman or is it the other way around. I think that is kind of debatable.
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Quasi sci-fi romantic comedy with a time-travel paradox twist?? Romantic Comedy for Nerds?
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I really liked this film because it was true to its characters
Marisa Tomei is great in being hysterical when it comes to relationships
While Vincent D'Onofrio balances lovely the thin line between crazy and time traveler
If you liked Safety not Guaranteed then it is a good chance you will like this too
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Ja kāds vēlas komēdiju ar romantikas elementiem Safety not garanteed nosaukt par "lielisku filmu" noskatieties šo. Sapratīsiet ko es domāju, minēto nosaucot par ļoti viduvēju filmu, kas izmanto laika ceļošanas ideoloģiju, bet kas pazaudē draivu pēc pirmās pusstundas.
Happy Accidents, izlaižot tehniskos laika ceļošanas aspektus, nezaudē magnētisko M.Tomei pievilcību un spēj izstāstīt vecumveco romantiskās komēdijas shēmu tik dīvaini, bet mīļi, ka "play along" princips iegūst pavisam citu nozīmi, saldsērīgu gan. -
I think I wouldn't have liked this half as much as I did with different actors. Vincent D'Onofrio and Marisa Tomei really bring character to any role they play. There were definite slow periods in the movie, but they kept it alive.
D'Onofrio's character claims to be from hundreds of years in the future. He comes back in time and he and Tomei fall in love. She's not sure whether he's crazy or just playing around, or really from the future.
I really liked the freeze frame and zooming in that they did several times throughout the movie. It had a 70's feel to it. It especially pleased me that turned out to be a plot point towards the end.
This was an extremely unique take on the romance movie genre. So much so that I even hesitate calling it a romance movie. -
This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Quasi sci-fi romantic comedy with a time-travel paradox twist?? Romantic Comedy for Nerds?
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I really liked this film because it was true to its characters
Marisa Tomei is great in being hysterical when it comes to relationships
While Vincent D'Onofrio balances lovely the thin line between crazy and time traveler
If you liked Safety not Guaranteed then it is a good chance you will like this too -
Cannot believe I just saw this movie in 2011. Wonderful dialogues, delightful comedy.
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So glad that somebody recommended that I go back and watch this because it was well worth the watch. Such a great love story about a sane man and insane woman or is it the other way around. I think that is kind of debatable.
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Film #86 of The December Project
Ever since I saw this a couple of years ago, I've grown to love it more and more each time I see it. It's either about a time traveller named Sam Deed from the year 2470 or it's about a man who thinks he's a time traveller from the year 2470. Ruby, the woman Sam falls in love with in the year 1999, has trouble deciding which one he truly is. She's a New Yorker who has grown pretty desperate to settle down and find "the one," but she's had terrible luck with men. Sam seems like exactly what she needs: sweet, polite, a little nerdy, pretty strange, but sincere. She gets so caught…
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Basically a low budget, romantic version of Twelve Monkeys. The slight twist being that this time, the audience isn't quite sure if Sam really is a time traveler or not.
Solid performances with an indie sensibility. Not so much so that it feels pretentious or trite however. Quite enjoyable actually; especially as the couple's relationship really gets to the root of the "problem."
An underseen gem is my guess.