
Burke is a motivational speaker whose book about dealing with grief is a best seller. His wife died in a car accident three years ago. He's in Seattle to lead a week-long workshop on healing and to negotiate a major multi-media deal. But something's amiss: he's a closet drinker, he won't ride elevators, his moods swing, he's estranged from his wife's father, and he's very much alone. In a hotel hallway, he bumps into a woman arranging flowers, tries to chat with her, and gets... (Full plot summary below)
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Burke is a motivational speaker whose book about dealing with grief is a best seller. His wife died in a car accident three years ago. He's in Seattle to lead a week-long workshop on healing and to negotiate a major multi-media deal. But something's amiss: he's a closet drinker, he won't ride elevators, his moods swing, he's estranged from his wife's father, and he's very much alone. In a hotel hallway, he bumps into a woman arranging flowers, tries to chat with her, and gets the brush-off. She's Eloise, a local florist who's just broken up with a boyfriend. He's persistent and they eventually go to dinner - it goes badly. What's blocking Burke? Can the physician heal himself.
Leave your thoughts about Love Happens.
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderOh, Love Happens, does it? Thanks, movie. Thanks for the evocative and powerful title. Way to show some effort. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithGood movies happen, too. Just not this time around. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekYeah, love happens. So does something else. Sappy, overemphatic and cloying...[a] mountain of narrative cliches. |
| Detroit NewsAdam GrahamThe film is part romance, part drama, part Seattle travelogue, with Washington emerging as the only true winner. Along with the benefactors of the movie's copious product placements, that is. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenThe parrot has the movie's most intelligent dialogue. |
| E! OnlineLuke Y. ThompsonIf a camera crew had simply followed Eckhart around Seattle without any directions, they could probably have come up with almost the same film. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonIn defense of Love Happens, we can say only that it's not as hair-raising a combination of romance and grief as last year's Seven Pounds, although it's close. |
| Entertainment SpectrumKeith CohenYou will want to have your tissues ready for the powerful emotional punch delivered by this film. Screenwriters Camp and Thompson break the mold with a story told with sincerity and honesty. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzGooey, banal and manipulative rom-com-dram. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...the movie finally packs a surprisingly resonant emotional punch... |