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The Happy Ending
Directed by
Richard Brooks
R
1969
1h 52m
Drama
6.3
33%
37%
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A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.
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Cast of The Happy Ending
Jean Simmons
Mary Wilson
John Forsythe
Fred Wilson
Shirley Jones
Flo Harrigan
Lloyd Bridges
Sam
Teresa Wright
Mrs. Spencer
Dick Shawn
Harry Bricker
Nanette Fabray
Agnes
Bobby Darin
Franco (as Robert Darin)
Tina Louise
Helen Bricker
Kathy Fields
Marge Wilson
Karen Steele
Divorcee
Gail Hensley
Betty
Eve Brent
Ethel
William O'Connell
Minister
Barry Cahill
Handsome Man
Miriam Blake
Cindy
Erin Moran
Marge as a Child (uncredited)
The Happy Ending Ratings & Reviews
The Retro Set
Nathanael Hood
Richard Brooks' The Happy Ending is an odd film snuggled somewhere between the romantic melodrama and the social problem films that came to define his career.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The Happy Ending is a kind of false Faces -- a movie that set out to expose the kitsch of Hollywood fantasy.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
[UPDATED 2025 BLU-RAY REVIEW] Simmons is excellent -- she earned an Oscar nomination, as did the song "What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?" -- while Bobby Darin amuses as an Italian slickster.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Depressing melodrama about the trials and tribulations of a modern marriage.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
[A] shudderingly impassioned, history-jangled, cinema-centric drama...
Variety
Variety Staff
A well-developed and acted and potentially significant 'woman's movie' unfortunately drowns in Brooks' over indulgences and over-writing.
Los Angeles Free Press
Michael Ross
It may be the most laughless comedy ever made or, for that matter, the quite silliest drama.
LIFE
Richard Schickel
Disgusting.
TV Guide
Jean Simmons struggles valiantly but no avail; she's defeated by writer-director Brooks's dreary, overwritten screenplay.
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