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There are better family dramas than "Happy Tears"

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Demi Moore, Parker Posey, and Ellen Barkin in Happy Tears (2009)

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Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Ellen Barkin, and Rip Torn in Happy Tears (2009)

Parker Posey

Demi Moore

Rip Torn

Mitchell Lichtenstein

Two sisters return home to deal with their ailing father, only to face some surprising situations.

Happy Tears

looking after dad...

When their dad (Rip Torn) has serious medical needs, his two daughters (Parker Posey and Demi Moore) return home to look after him. They meet Dad&apos;s girlfriend (Ellen Barkin), who isn&apos;t helping with Dad at all. She seems to have some issues herself... the sisters are overwhelmed. Clearly Dad needs a home nurse, but they don&apos;t want to do that. We keep seeing these weird moments where apparently we look inside Jayne&apos;s mind, and how she really feels about something. Jayne learns what was really going on with her dad during her childhood; things that she either didn&apos;t see, or didn&apos;t want to see. Then, about halfway through, it becomes a bit more surreal, and things start to happen! They scare off Dad&apos;s mooching girlfriend. They sell off his stuff. And they start looking for the treasure that may or may not really be hidden on the property. Written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein; it starts out quite serious, but gets lighter in the second half. Family secrets are revealed. They find some resolution... sort of. In their own way. Really gets going in the second half!

Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne hopes that their father&apos;s condition isn&apos;t that serious. Joe is still singing and playing his old guitar, and the lively widower even has a new &quot;ladyfriend,&quot; shameless and sassy Shelly. But as the visible moments of their father&apos;s impending senility increase, so do the dysfunctional family dynamics. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura&apos;s busy schedule as an environmentalist and mother of two small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson. Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! Any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones.

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When their dad (Rip Torn) has serious medical needs, his two daughters (Parker Posey and Demi Moore) return home to look after him. They meet Dad's girlfriend (Ellen Barkin), who isn't helping with Dad at all. She seems to have some issues herself... the sisters are overwhelmed. Clearly Dad needs a home nurse, but they don't want to do that. We keep seeing these weird moments where apparently we look inside Jayne's mind, and how she really feels about something. Jayne learns what was really going on with her dad during her childhood; things that she either didn't see, or didn't want to see. Then, about halfway through, it becomes a bit more surreal, and things start to happen! They scare off Dad's mooching girlfriend. They sell off his stuff. And they start looking for the treasure that may or may not really be hidden on the property. Written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein; it starts out quite serious, but gets lighter in the second half. Family secrets are revealed. They find some resolution... sort of. In their own way. Really gets going in the second half!

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