Happy, Texas

United States

1999

98 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Mark Illsley, Rick Montgomery, Ed Stone

SCR Mark Illsley, Ed Stone, Phil Reeves

CAST Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam, William H. Macy, Ally Walker, Illeana Douglas, M.C. Gainey, Ron Perlman, Mo Gaffney, Paul Dooley, Jillian Berard, Scarlett Pomers

MUSIC Peter Harris

Sundance (Dramatic Competition): Special Jury Prize, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema)

Synopsis

Two escaped convicts arrive in the town of Happy, Texas, where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town’s Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant. Enjoying the celebrity and using their skill as con-men, the two adopt their persona to take on the task. Of course, as the two are heterosexual, their interest in the involved ladies intensifies. Ally Walker is a banker, who is distrustful of men and has given up on love. Illeana Douglas plays the dowdy, badly dressed teacher. —IMDb

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Johnny DuBiel

8Apr11

All things considered, this film was a grave disappointment. At the time Zahn seemed to be primed to transition into something he never quite became, and this film was a hell of a momentum stopper for a career that had developed quite a head of steam. Weak script and protagonists that you not only don't care about, but kind of don't even like.

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