Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is a wonderfully powerful film that manages to seriously portray family drama in a believable way - so much so that I could match situations in the film to similar situations that have happened at my own family gatherings. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, hence the lower rating, but for me it was a great snapshot into a family's life and all the issues that get dragged up when so many people come together with a lot of emotional baggage.Others have mentioned the amazing acting performances and they really do bring the characters and thus the story to life. You can't help but feel for Ellen Barkin's Lynn as she's getting picked at from all sides, both from judgement and disdain from outside her immediate family and from within with Ezra Miller's Elliot acting up the entire time.However, this film tends highly towards the drama end of comedy-drama, so much so that it contains very little comedy at all in my opinion so I feel the genre categorising is a little disingenuous.

Another Happy Day is a black dramedy that features an ensemble cast such as Ellen Barkin, Kate Bosworth, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Haden Church and Demi Moore.It is all about a dysfunctional family that gathers together on a family weekend.One weekend,every family member gathers together at the Annapolis estate of Lynn's parents for the discussion of the marriage of her eldest son Dylan,who accompanied by his three younger children.Lyn's other children,Elliot and Alice arrives as well having issues of their own with the former who isn't really in a good relationship with her mother and the latter having a hard time fighting her demons.Worse things happen when Lynn is demanded to be heard by her parents and her judgmental sisters as well by her ex-husband Paul and his second wife,Patty.The film was difficult to watch since everyone - let me repeat that everyone - is dislikeable and unbearable. It isn't funny considering that many viewers see films to relax and enjoy a good movie.Unfortunately,the people in it add stress to the viewer.What also is unrealistic is the fact that everyone seem to hate each other and managed to live in the same roof.Despite having talented actors and actresses involved in it,they are unable to lift it from being a poor movie into at least an average one.Finally,the good screenplay did not help as well as viewer could not feel nor empathize with the characters in it.

Watch and see people's real lives. The acting in this movie is superb, as one sees a group of dysfunctional people interact. A teenager with a drug problem is accurately if sadly depicted, as are friends, a mother confronting his problems but accomplishing little, indeed aggravating the issues.Perhaps the central point is how little some people know about interacting with others, as this dysfunctional family increases problems, aggravates family's members, and fails to understand one another.Yes, this is depressing and it may well hit a little too close to home. But if you want an emotional experience that leaves you understanding a little more about human experience, see this.This should win awards and I'd rank it as one of the top 100 movies of all time.

It makes complete sense that 'Another Happy Day' would have low overall ratings. Clearly it has been rated by the very type of people it depicts.For those of us, though, who feel deeply - who recognise a feeling of isolation and separateness in this life - this film is a masterpiece. Much like Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye", the characters here are awash in their circumstances. Their intelligence and insights set them apart from the crowd, but cannot save them. Rather, it imbues them with a sense of alienation and deep-seated loneliness. But all is not doom and gloom. There is a healing here. A subtle taste of humour. Even amidst the darkness, sparks of light catch us and remain.Ellen Barkin's performance is astonishing. We live alongside of her emotions. We live within her characters' desperation, in her helplessness, in her strength, and in the purity of her love. Her characterisation is complete. This is what acting can be. It is what acting should be. Ezra Miller, too, understands and becomes his character completely. Every nuance of this movie has been lovingly crafted with empathy and with understanding. At no time is the audience condescended to or spared. Sam Levinson has given us a masterpiece, and like most real masterpieces, the work is destined to be appreciated by only a few.If you are unafraid to enter into the grittiness and difficulties of familial relationships; if you are sensitive and intelligent and a lover of life; if you are a poet at heart, if you understand the separateness of individuation, then I must urge you, see this film. Like swimming in the dark ocean on a moonlit night, it is beautiful, deep, and untethering. It will leave you agasp.