Sometime they’ll make an indie film about a non-dysfunctional wedding, but “Another Happy Day” is not it. If you liked “Rachel Getting Married” or “Margot at the Wedding,” you probably have good taste, so you should avoid this one.
Hurt feelings and dark secrets abound during an upscale wedding weekend presided over by a frazzled mom (Ellen Barkin). Thomas Haden Church plays her ex, Demi Moore his second wife, and George Kennedy is a doddering grandpa who keeps threatening to die in a funny way (and eventually does). There’s a precocious little kid who might have Asperger’s, a cynical teen who is in and out of rehab and a sister of the groom who likes to cut herself. She’s played by Kate Bosworth, who after years of failing to live up to her hype machine should probably be doing something more in line with her talents, such as toothpaste commercials.
This motley crew (plus Ellen Burstyn as Grandma) spends the movie giving speeches about how woebegone they are and arguing about who hurt whose feelings more. Hey, I get it: Even at a supposed celebration, the well-bred and well-off aren’t really happy at all. So the title is ironic. Thanks for that profound insight.