happythankyoumoreplease Talks Its Way onto DVD & Blu-ray
Six twenty-somethings (or—gasp—about-to-be-thirties) talk their way to happy endings in the new-to-DVD/Blu-ray happythankyoumoreplease (2010), a movie that informs us happily-ever-after won’t happen unless you let it. Other important lessons shared are love is where you find it and looks aren’t everything.
Sam (director Josh Radnor) is walking down a Manhattan street when he experiences one of those “boing” moments that movies like happythankyoumoreplease try to convince us are the way love happens. He sees an attractive woman and has but one thought (no, not that one), “She’s the one.” In case we’re not convinced that love happens like that, two characters recall their meeting later in the film and, guess what, it was “boing” all the way. As if “boing” wasn’t cute enough, the attractive woman’s name is Mississippi (Kate Mara).
Sam is a successful-enough author of short stories whose first novel isn’t being published because he did not suffer enough angst as a child. One day, a little boy named Rasheen (Michael Algieri) gets separated from his family on the subway and Sam goes to his rescue. The problem is Rasheen, who is an art prodigy, doesn’t want to be reunited with his seventh foster family, he wants to live with Sam, his new best friend. The other problem is that Sam starts to like the idea.
Sam’s best friend, Annie (Malin Akerman), is an unlucky-in-love alopecia victim who proves how unlucky she is in an unnecessary scene where she goes to bed with an ex-boyfriend only to discover he’s the same old shit that done her wrong. No offense, Josh Radnor (writer), but you could have just told us she always picked the wrong men. Annie is being pursued by Sam #2 (I’m not kidding), who is less than her romantic ideal, which is based on looks. Sadly, actor Tony Hale is too attractive to play the unattractive Sam #2, a super-nice guy if only Annie would close her eyes.
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