Happy Endings

When a director makes a great film you always want to see the next one (see Jindabyne review). Such was the case with Happy Endings .
Written and directed by Don Roos, who made the excellent The Opposite Of Sex which also starred Lisa Kudrow (pictured).
Happy Endings isn't as instantly likeable but it does cover some of the same territory. It's also one of those movies with about six or seven major characters whose lives intertwine in various ways.
What was great about Happy Endings was the running commentary that happened, as a sidebar to the action in the film. It would tell you bits of the story, context, or even a future event related to what was happening from time to time. For example, at the start of the film Maime (Kudrow) is hurtling down the street, running away from someone for an unknown reason and she stumbles onto a road and is hit by a car. The sidebar immediately tells you she doesn't die and in fact no-one dies in the entire movie (on-screen). It then takes you back 20 years to where the events that led to this incident began.
It wasn't a great film, and it was a shade long, but there was an excellent cast (including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom Arnold and Jason Ritter) and some good performances. I won't go in to how the movie gets its name because, let's just say, it's not PG-rated.
Unfortunately a 7/10, just.