Happiness Runs
Happiness Runs

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- 48/100 based on 704 votes
  • Released: 2010
  • Runtime: 88 mins
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  • Studio: Strand Releasing
  • Genres: Drama

A young man named Victor (Mark L. Young) realizes the shortcomings of the Utopian ideals on the hippie commune where he was raised. Victor's mother (Andie MacDowell) is funding the commune where the guru Insley (Rutger Hauer) hypnotizes and seduces women with a technique he calls "running". Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him their bodies and all of their worldly possessions. Victor's childhood love, Becky (Hanna Hall), returns to take care of he... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Happiness Runs:

Joni Barth
Kirsten Berman
Mark Boone Junior
Joseph Castanon
Richard Edson
Andie MacDowell

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A young man named Victor (Mark L. Young) realizes the shortcomings of the Utopian ideals on the hippie commune where he was raised. Victor's mother (Andie MacDowell) is funding the commune where the guru Insley (Rutger Hauer) hypnotizes and seduces women with a technique he calls "running". Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him their bodies and all of their worldly possessions. Victor's childhood love, Becky (Hanna Hall), returns to take care of her deathly ill father. Victor, haunted by visions of Becky's death, is desperate to save her and himself by escaping from the cult. Preoccupied with Insley's free love philosophy, the adults of the community overlook the painful reality that the self destructive behavior of their children is most certainly due to early exposure to sex and drugs. To afford an escape, Victor tries to sell marijuana, but is cut out by rivals competing for Becky's affection. Finally, Victor is torn between getting money from his mother, who is entirely under Insley's influence, dealing with the violent drama of his drug-addled friends, and staying to save Becky as she spins out of control.

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Film Journal International - 8/10 by David Noh"Callow" would be too kind a description of this messy, unoriginal and dull treatise of a filmmaker's youthful years in a commune.
Village Voice - 6/10 by Aaron HillisLoosely based on writer-director Adam Sherman's similar cult upbringing and disillusionment, the film builds on a fascinating cautionary tale, but doesn't develop its characters past whatever movie-of-the-week crisis each suffers from.
Boxoffice Magazine - 5/10 by Amy NicholsonWe get the broad strokes of how the hippies corrupted their own movement, but there isn't a single lead character we'd give a dollar to on Haight Street.
New York Daily News - 4/10 by Joe NeumaierThe kids' story gets out of control, but Andie MacDowell is a pleasantly earthy mess as Victor's out-of-it mother, and familiar New York faces (Ann Magnuson, Mark Boone Jr., Richard Edson) lend quirky support as the out-of-it elders.
Variety - 4/10 by Peter DebrugeSherman's personal wounds feel fresh, which makes for a superficially beautiful but otherwise bitter story.
Observer - 3/10 by Rex ReedAs the film builds to a feverish hysteria, you have to work hard to keep from laughing.
Time Out - 2/10 by Stephen GarrettSherman based this obtuse psychosexual dystopia on his own hippie upbringing; the result is virtually teeming with bitter resentment for the drug-addled parent collective that inadvertently turned his adolescence into a chapter from "Lord of the Flies."
Moving Pictures Magazine - 2/10 by Annlee EllingsonSherman's macabre dream-fueled imagery elevates the material from solely navel-gazing, but only slightly.
Los Angeles Times - 1/10 by Gary GoldsteinAn astoundingly bad memory piece that blows its potential dramatic heft at every turn.
The New York Times - 0/10 by Stephen HoldenThis strident exposé may gladden the hearts of some anti-’60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience. Its grain of truthfulness, however, is just enough to leave you unsettled in the pit of your stomach.

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