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5,7/10
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Le Dr Buck Ryan, auteur psychologue à l'humour décalé, anime un séminaire à Seattle, mais sa réussite professionnelle rime avec l'échec de sa vie sentimentale depuis qu'il est veuf.Le Dr Buck Ryan, auteur psychologue à l'humour décalé, anime un séminaire à Seattle, mais sa réussite professionnelle rime avec l'échec de sa vie sentimentale depuis qu'il est veuf.Le Dr Buck Ryan, auteur psychologue à l'humour décalé, anime un séminaire à Seattle, mais sa réussite professionnelle rime avec l'échec de sa vie sentimentale depuis qu'il est veuf.
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- AnecdotesThe interior of Eloise's Garden was actually a high-end lingerie shop in Vancouver. The filmmakers redressed it as a flower shop.
- GaffesEloise chides her assistant for not cauterizing the roses. Roses are never cauterized. That would seal the stems so they would not be able to take up water. Roses in fact should be cut daily since the stems seal up naturally.
- Bandes originalesThe Time of Times
Written by Badly Drawn Boy (as Damon Gough)
Performed by Badly Drawn Boy
Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd./Astrawerks
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
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The premise of this movie held a lot of potential but unfortunately, Love Happens doesn't deliver as... not much happens in this movie.
Aaron Eckhart, who seems to struggle not to be type-casted as your average guy in light romantic stuff plays... Burke, an ordinary dude trying to overcome his wife's passing by becoming a modern-day guru for people who have lost loved ones.
Jennifer Aniston, who basically embraces her career of being typecast as a romantic interest in romantic flick plays herself once again. This time, she goes by the nickname Eloise but she'll still be that same single woman who's had a string of bad relationships and is till looking for "the one".
Director/writer Brandon Camp doesn't give the character of Eloise much substance, and seems content just to let Aniston do her usual work. He seems to have focus mainly (in the script and on screen) on Burke. In the first few minutes, it seems to work; Burke is an interesting character. The self-help speeches are well-written, the pressure on Burke's shoulders is felt.
Unfortunately, much of the movie revolves around the relationship that develops when Burke and Eloise bump into each others and begin to know each others. Their interest for each others is uninteresting and lacks credibility, in part because Eloise is so poorly sketched and also because, as we learn to know Burke's real issues, it just seems... wrong.
And as the film goes on, it just gets worse as it seems Brandon Camp doesn't understand the topic of mourning very well, and also seems to send the message that using people as emotional crutches, getting involved in relationships when you are not fully ready are good things. Many scenes are almost surreal. Releasing domestic pets into the wild, breaking and entering at your former in-laws, lying, magically curing your sense of loss by shopping at Home Depot... I like quirky stuff, but the mix of comedy, romance and the intense drama underneath wasn't done very well.
To top it off, the whole movie is wrapped in a sort of romantic relationship that never happens, and played out with two actors who have little to no chemistry together.
Aaron Eckhart is a gifted actor that should have no problem finding roles, but as far as a lead, he's been slightly unlucky and needs to select projects a bit more carefully or risk being type-casted in that type of flicks much like his co-lead.
For Aniston, this is the latest in a string of duds. As for Brandon Camp, this isn't his first project tackling grief as he wrote the poor Dragonfly (2002) and I shudder when I look at his next project, Steinbeck's Point of View, which also seems to deal with issues of life and death.
I have nothing against writers who focus on certain issues, as long as they master those issues well, which isn't the case for Camp.
Aaron Eckhart, who seems to struggle not to be type-casted as your average guy in light romantic stuff plays... Burke, an ordinary dude trying to overcome his wife's passing by becoming a modern-day guru for people who have lost loved ones.
Jennifer Aniston, who basically embraces her career of being typecast as a romantic interest in romantic flick plays herself once again. This time, she goes by the nickname Eloise but she'll still be that same single woman who's had a string of bad relationships and is till looking for "the one".
Director/writer Brandon Camp doesn't give the character of Eloise much substance, and seems content just to let Aniston do her usual work. He seems to have focus mainly (in the script and on screen) on Burke. In the first few minutes, it seems to work; Burke is an interesting character. The self-help speeches are well-written, the pressure on Burke's shoulders is felt.
Unfortunately, much of the movie revolves around the relationship that develops when Burke and Eloise bump into each others and begin to know each others. Their interest for each others is uninteresting and lacks credibility, in part because Eloise is so poorly sketched and also because, as we learn to know Burke's real issues, it just seems... wrong.
And as the film goes on, it just gets worse as it seems Brandon Camp doesn't understand the topic of mourning very well, and also seems to send the message that using people as emotional crutches, getting involved in relationships when you are not fully ready are good things. Many scenes are almost surreal. Releasing domestic pets into the wild, breaking and entering at your former in-laws, lying, magically curing your sense of loss by shopping at Home Depot... I like quirky stuff, but the mix of comedy, romance and the intense drama underneath wasn't done very well.
To top it off, the whole movie is wrapped in a sort of romantic relationship that never happens, and played out with two actors who have little to no chemistry together.
Aaron Eckhart is a gifted actor that should have no problem finding roles, but as far as a lead, he's been slightly unlucky and needs to select projects a bit more carefully or risk being type-casted in that type of flicks much like his co-lead.
For Aniston, this is the latest in a string of duds. As for Brandon Camp, this isn't his first project tackling grief as he wrote the poor Dragonfly (2002) and I shudder when I look at his next project, Steinbeck's Point of View, which also seems to deal with issues of life and death.
I have nothing against writers who focus on certain issues, as long as they master those issues well, which isn't the case for Camp.
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- 31 déc. 2009
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- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Site officiel
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Love Happens
- Lieux de tournage
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- Budget
- 18 000 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 22 965 110 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 8 057 010 $ US
- 20 sept. 2009
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 36 088 028 $ US
- Durée1 heure 49 minutes
- Couleur
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- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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