Another Happy Day (2011)
A family weekend is fraught with emotional land mines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn as she arrives at her parents’ Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan, accompanied by her three younger children.
Lynn’s hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot lobs verbal grenades at his mother and her relatives while daughter Alice, a fragile young woman, fights valiantly to keep her longtime demons under control.
The weekend quickly unravels as Lynn demands to be heard by her aloof, disdainful mother, ailing father, and ever-judgmental sisters, but especially by her ex-husband, Paul, and his hot-tempered second wife, Patty.
Confronted, oftentimes hilariously, with the deeply painful, half-buried truths that have given rise to the family’s primal web of resentments and recriminations, Lynn struggles to maintain her equilibrium as her best attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course.
Featured music:
Arnalds, Ólafur. “Everything Must Change”. Another Happy Day Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Erased Tapes, 2011.
