Love Happens

2009 "Sometimes when you least expect it..."
5.7| 1h49m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 18 September 2009 Released
Producted By: Universal Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.lovehappensmovie.com
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Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.

Genre

Drama, Romance

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Director

Brandon Camp

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Love Happens Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
tkleeman This movie is an unrecognized masterpiece. It has been dismissed as a failed romantic comedy. It is in fact an marvelous exploration of the grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one. Both the protagonists in this drama have lost someone, and are initially fractured human beings, unable to deal with their own grief. They eventually find love only because they are able to confront their loss, acknowledge it, and move on to new experiences. Enjoyable as a romantic-comedy, but much more life-affirming and satisfying as a meditation upon death. It also contains a relatively positive depiction of the leader of a cult or new religion, which is rare in popular media. In this regard, it can be compared to the Taxing Woman (Marusa no onna) series of Itami Jūzō, which also featured detailed depictions of a new religion.
tanelteder A romantic drama with Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston seems promising, huh? Of course. Aaron has had some breakthrough roles and Jennifer is always beautiful. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed. Although they look like a nice couple, the movie itself had lots of deficiences. It didn't gel and I felt bored.Burke (Aaron Eckhart) is more interesting than Eloise (Jennifer Aniston), but still falls short. The story around him is far too superficial. Eloise looks great, but yeah.. that's about it.Romantic drama? Yes. Good Romantic drama? No. More like an average or below that. Sometimes love happens, sometimes not. It doesn't happen with this film.
poetman00 OK first of all I love Jennifer Aniston. But she needs to go back to TV. She's not a character actress. She's a personality that people really like. She could host her own show or at least star in one while playing a character much like Rachel from "Friends". That's what she was good at and we were fine with that. We loved her for it. She won an Emmy for it...I mean, Hello. And if she wants to do movies, they should be much like "The Good Girl" which I thought was brilliantly acted. I hated this movie and how cheaply it was written. I thought Jen looked gorgeous through out the whole thing but It didn't do anything for me. Even the title feels as if they came up with it on the spot and decided to go around filming at stores and concerts and flower shops.
MCreton I wasn't eager to see it as the title alone left little to the imagination and neither did the story. It was contrived and boring, Aniston's character was so flat and blah I couldn't believe it there was no depth or personality in the character yet it seemed as though she could have done something with the character but perhaps found herself as bored as I was watching it and therefore just slept through the filming. There was absolutely NO chemistry between she and Eckhart although to his credit he did a good job (in a story which although intending to be about two people falling in love ends up being nothing of the kind and instead revolves around the loss of a spouse) but even then he could never have been good enough to save the film. It was actually painful and pointless with useless scenes like the introduction of Aniston's mother (and this wasn't edited out why?)as well as showing a band that I've never heard of who's music basically sucked. Even when they had a chance of at least getting the viewing audience interested by having some great tunes they failed. And wasn't sure the point of that scene either. It appeared as if perhaps there was an earlier scene which would lead them to this particular band or something along those lines but if there was it was one of the few things they did cut that may have actually been able to help understand this unbelievably boring film) so I was unsure of the point of this as well. Yes it's a romantic gesture to take someone to see a band even without having obtained tickets but again, it was just dropped in there like the rest of the films lackluster moments. As a writer myself I often wonder "what the hell were they thinking?" and it is in that one in only way that it didn't fail to disappoint. The only character that was worth watching was that of Walter played perfectly by John Carroll Lynch who as usual gives an outstanding performance. However, once again Hollywood took a perfectly romantic idea, and then does absolutely nothing with it. Love Happens to be the most boring worthless attempt at a romantic comedy I've seen in some time, a tragedy? Absolutely, but I'm afraid not on purpose.