Love Happens
| Love Happens | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Brandon Camp |
| Produced by |
Scott Stuber Mike Thompson |
| Written by |
Brandon Camp Mike Thompson |
| Starring |
Aaron Eckhart Jennifer Aniston Frances Conroy Dan Fogler Martin Sheen Judy Greer |
| Music by | Christopher Young |
| Cinematography | Eric Alan Edwards |
| Edited by | Dana E. Glauberman |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | |
Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million[1] |
| Box office |
$36.1 million[1] $8,610,119 (US DVD sales) [3] |
Love Happens is a 2009 American romantic drama film written by Mike Thompson and Brandon Camp, and directed by Brandon Camp. Starring Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston. It was released on September 18, 2009.
Plot
Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart), is a successful Ph.D. and author of a self-help book that gives advice about dealing with the loss of a loved one. He writes the book after his wife dies in a car accident as a way to deal with the grief. While giving a workshop in Seattle, where his wife was from, he meets Eloise (Jennifer Aniston), a creative floral designer who owns her own flower-shop. She spurns his initial advance as her past relationships with men have not gone well, but after a heated exchange in the men's restroom, she meets him for dinner. Even though the dinner is awkward, they begin spending time together although she insists to her mother and her employee Marty (Judy Greer) that they are not "dating". It seems, however, that Burke has not been following his own advice, and in fact has not been dealing with the loss of his wife. In the end, he confesses to an audience that he was driving the car, and not his wife, as he previously maintained. Due to this, he blames himself for her death. Eloise, along with his wife's father (Martin Sheen), help Burke move past his wife's death. Burke goes to Eloise, telling her that she had spent the last few days getting to know the part of him that was not available and wondered was she interested in getting to know the part of him that was available.
Cast
- Aaron Eckhart as Burke Ryan, PhD, a widowed self-help author and therapist who holds grief seminars around the country[4]
- Jennifer Aniston as Eloise, a florist and the woman that Burke begins dating[4]
- Frances Conroy as Eloise's mother
- Martin Sheen as Burke's father-in-law[4]
- Judy Greer as Marty, Eloise's employee and friend[4]
- Dan Fogler as Lane "Goddamn" Marshall, Burke's manager[4]
- Joe Anderson as Tyler, Eloise's musician boyfriend, who she breaks up with over his cheating[4]
- John Carroll Lynch as Walter, a reluctant seminar attendee who lost his son[4]
- Darla Vandenbossche as Beehive[5]
- Panou as Unicom Executive #3, a Unicom Exec[4]
Soundtrack
| Love Happens OST | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by Christopher Young | ||||
| Released | September 11, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Score • Various | |||
| Length | 47:23 | |||
| Label | La-La Land Records • Relativity Music Group | |||
| Christopher Young chronology | ||||
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Additional music by:
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Time of Times" | Badly Drawn Boy | 3:17 |
| 2. | "Dream" | Priscilla Ahn | 3:31 |
| 3. | "Lake Michigan" | Rogue Wave | 5:01 |
| 4. | "Fresh Feeling" | Eels | 3:38 |
| 5. | "We Will Become Silhouettes" | The Postal Service | 4:59 |
| 6. | "Your Hand In Mine" | Explosions in the Sky | 4:08 |
| 7. | "Have A Little Faith in Me" | John Hiatt | 4:01 |
| 8. | "IO (This Time Around)" | Helen Stellar | 5:05 |
| 9. | "Everyday" | Rogue Wave | 3:38 |
| 10. | "Little Wing" | Christopher Young | 6:02 |
| 11. | "Love Happens" | Christopher Young | 3:22 |
| Total length: | 47:23 | ||
All tracks written by Christopher Young.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Love Happens" | 3:18 |
| 2. | "Kaledoscope Christmas" | 2:18 |
| 3. | "A World In The Three Colors" | 2:18 |
| 4. | "It's MMM...Good" | 1:48 |
| 5. | "Crystal Flowers" | 2:12 |
| 6. | "Walk The Talk" | 1:30 |
| 7. | "Around Or Through?" | 3:55 |
| 8. | "Past Isn't" | 3:34 |
| 9. | "Joy Within Each Thought" | 1:56 |
| 10. | "Groove E" | 1:31 |
| 11. | "Each Decorated Ditch" | 2:43 |
| 12. | "Vodka Logic" | 3:41 |
| 13. | "Mind Noise" | 4:20 |
| 14. | "Cinnamon Life" | 2:44 |
| 15. | "We're A-OK" | 2:44 |
| 16. | "Love Happened" | 6:02 |
| 17. | "Baggage Blister Hoedown" (BONUS TRACK) | 1:53 |
| 18. | "A Constant Cry" (BONUS TRACK) | 3:04 |
| 19. | "A Dissonant Discourse" (BONUS TRACK) | 2:57 |
| 20. | "Why The Hell Am I In Heaven?" (BONUS TRACK) | 2:38 |
| 21. | "Not Really Postlude" (BONUS TRACK) | 3:18 |
| 22. | "Freud Who?" (BONUS TRACK) | 1:52 |
| 23. | "Fast Toward The Eye (Of Lorelei)" (BONUS TRACK) | 3:49 |
Production
During development, the film was known as Brand New Day and Traveling.[6]
The film takes place in Seattle, Washington, and was filmed in Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.
On September 15, 2009, a lawsuit was filed by two writers claiming that the film's premise was stolen from them, seeking an injunction against its release or to be awarded the film's future profits, estimated at $100,000,000.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 16% of critics gave positive reviews based on 106 reviews with a score of 3.8/10.[7] Another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from reviews of mainstream critics, gave the film a "generally unfavorable" score of 33% based on 25 reviews.[8]
On its opening weekend, the film opened at #4 behind I Can Do Bad All By Myself, The Informant!, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs respectively with $8,057,010.[1][9]
Home media
Love Happens was released on DVD & Blu-ray on February 2, 2010. It grossed $7,721,633 in US DVD sales.[10]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Love Happens at Box Office Mojo
- ↑ Cineworld Cinemas: Films - Love Happens Archived 2009-08-09 at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
- ↑ http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Love-Happens#tab=summary
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Borys Kit (2008-01-22). "Trio 'Traveling' with Universal". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ↑ Yvonne Zacharias (2008-02-06). "Juno actress hopes to inspire others to move on". The Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ↑ "Brand New Day - or is it?". Jennifer Aniston Watch. 2009-06-05. Archived from the original on 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
|first1=missing|last1=in Authors list (help) - ↑ Love Happens at Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ Love Happens at Metacritic
- ↑ "Prospects for 'Cloudy' future mixed as 'Informant,' 'Love Happens,' 'Jennifer's Body' disappoint". Los Angeles Times. 2009-09-20. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ↑ "Love Happens - Numbers".