The Happy Ending

The Happy Ending

1969 · 107 min · EN · R · 6.0 (19 votes)
Dir. Richard Brooks · Starring Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Teresa Wright, Dick Shawn · Music Michel Legrand

Marriage is a 30 billion dollar business! And that's just to get married.

Drama

The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.

VIBE

A quiet, introspective journey into the ennui of middle age. It feels like a long, contemplative sigh, exploring the search for meaning beyond the mundane. A film for quiet reflection.

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