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A love story, straight up with a twist.Plot:
Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it... more | add synopsisAwards:
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Go Comedy! Hosts Happy Hour Comedy Night 6/19 To Benefit Gilda's Club (From BroadwayWorld.com. 15 June 2009, 6:49 PM, PDT)
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Old-Fashioned Portrait of A Charismatic Alcoholic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Anthony LaPaglia | ... | Tulley | |
| Eric Stoltz | ... | Levine | |
| Caroleen Feeney | ... | Natalie | |
| Robert Vaughn | ... | Tulley Sr. | |
| Sandrine Holt | ... | Bonnie | |
| Thomas Sadoski | ... | Scott | |
| Mario Cantone | ... | Geoffrey | |
| Malachy McCourt | ... | Dr. Pitcoff | |
| Michael Mulheren | ... | Kelly | |
| Miriam Sirota | ... | Rachel | |
| Cate Smit | ... | Publicist | |
| Sam Breslin Wright | ... | Chris | |
| Randy Evans | ... | Dave | |
| Michael Minutoli | ... | Bruiser | |
| Sean Conroy | ... | Doorman |
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Levine: I don't suppose she has a sister.Tulley: Three brothers.
Levine: I can't catch a break. What's her mother like?
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"Happy Hour" is a well-acted but dated feeling portrait of an alcoholic.
Far less harrowing than addiction films from "Days of Wine and Roses" and "The Lost Weekend" to "Permanent Midnight," writer/director Mike Bencivenga makes a heavy drinker and his enablers out to be genial wasters of talent until the physical ramifications become unavoidable.
Anthony LaPaglia is a charismatic alcoholic, if a mean supervisor at work, and we have to accept that is enough to justify the noble loyalty of a teacher he picks up in a bar and his best friend, a long-time co-worker. The triangle is also old-fashioned, barely hinting at the kinds of depths as are in "A Home at the End of the World." There's a brief mention in passing that his mother is also an alcoholic, but the friends seem to be social drinkers who were just keeping him company drink for drink, and can give it up at will and be inspired by LaPaglia's character to change their lives.
The voice-over narration is a bit "Sunset Boulevard"-ish, but is fit into the story line of the central character as a writer finishing his book.
Nice NYC touches: to have LaPaglia be a kind of Delbert McClinton in Mary Lou Lord's band and to have his dad, as played by Robert Vaughn, be part of a circle at The Algonquin that includes such noted commentators on heavy drinking as Pete Hamill and Steve Dunleavy.