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The Happy Ending

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The Happy Ending
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PG,1hr 52min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1969
Director:
Richard Brooks
Starring:
Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Lloyd Bridges  ...more
Synopsis: Suburban housewives console themselves with pills and alcohol to tolerate their spouses' infidelities in The Happy Ending. Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons) is married to Fred (John Forsythe) and she prepares for their 16th wedding-anniversary party with tranquilizers and booze. The guests are clients of Fred's, a successful tax attorney. Harry (Dick Shawn) and wife Helen (Tina Louise) are two of the guests. Helen offers herself to Fred, as Mary entertains thoughts of bedding down with the playboy Sam ( Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
One of a number of films from the late '60s and early '70s that looked at the problem of life among the upper class (and especially among the wives therein), The Happy Ending has dated considerably since its initial release. In 1969, it seemed fairly fresh and basically honest; now, it's territory that has been traversed many times before, and an air of manipulation and calculation hangs over the screenplay. ... Full Review
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Jean Simmons
Mary Wilson
John Forsythe
Fred Wilson
Lloyd Bridges
Sam
Teresa Wright
Mrs. Spencer
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