Happy Here and Now (2002)
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45% of critics liked it
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48% of users liked it
(660 ratings)
Drawn into a menacing underground world of the New Orleans elite while searching for her missing sister, Muriel (Shalom Harlow), Amelia (Liane Balaban) is aided in her investigation by ex-CIA agent Bill (Clarence Williams III) in this effort from Nadja director Michael Almereyda. Soon discovering… More Drawn into a menacing underground world of the New Orleans elite while searching for her missing sister, Muriel (Shalom Harlow), Amelia (Liane Balaban) is aided in her investigation by ex-CIA agent Bill (Clarence Williams III) in this effort from Nadja director Michael Almereyda. Soon discovering mysterious webcam footage on Muriel's laptop computer that will seemingly aid them in finding Amelia's sister, the duo is confronted with shifting identities in a scene where no one is quite who they appear to be on the surface. An obscure and disturbing study in the nature of avatars in the age of technological isolation, Almereyda's haunting drama soon leads Amelia and Bill into a complex web buried deep in the underground of a mysterious and sometimes menacing city. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Almereyda
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Jun 8, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- IFC Films
Critic Reviews
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David Hunter, Hollywood Reporter
The future is quieter, emotionally subdued and grayly mysterious, at least in the small hop forward imagined by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
This is a droll, laid-back film noir steeped in Crescent City atmosphere and music that culminates in the colliding worlds of genuine and virtual reality.
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Michael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years.
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Michael Almereyda's futuristic mystery isn't a complete misfire, but it does leave you with the same baffled blankness that suffuses his isolated, techno-dependent characters.
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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
A bit too mannered to engage.
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Cast
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Karl Geary
as Eddie Mars/Tom
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Shalom Harlow
as Muriel
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Clarence Williams III
as Bill
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Ally Sheedy
as Lois
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Josephine Martin
as Josephine
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Gloria Reuben
as Hannah
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Liane Balaban
as Amelia
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David Arquette
as Eddie
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Isabel Gillies
as Isabel
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Quintron
as Quintron
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Nic Ratner
as Peter
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Johnny Sinclair
as Himself
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Ernie K-Doe
as Himself
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Antoinette K-Doe
as Herself
