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Love Happens (2009)

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Reviews Counted:94

Fresh:17

Rotten:77

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Love Happens is a dull, chemistry-free affair that under-utilizes its appealing leads.

Rated: 12A [See Full Rating] PG-13 for some language including sexual references.

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:09-10-2009

Synopsis: Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might... Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might finally be able to help him help himself.

Dr. Burke Ryan (Eckhart) is on the precipice of a major multimedia deal, but the therapist who asks his patients to openly confront their pain is secretly unable to take his own advice.

Eloise Chandler (Aniston) has sworn off men and decided to focus on her floral business. However, when she meets Burke at the hotel where he's speaking, there is an instant attraction. But will two people who have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love another chance?

As each struggles with the hurt of love and loss, they realize that in order to move forward, they need to let go of the past. And if they can, they'll find that, sometimes, love happens when you least expect it. --© Universal [More]

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer, Joe Anderson, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen

Director: Brandon Camp

Director: Brandon Camp
Screenwriter: Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson
Producer: Scott Stuber, Mike Thompson
Composer: Christopher Young
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Excise the love story, and there's a pretty good movie buried within Love Happens struggling to get out, mostly to little avail.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/17/09
Brian Lowry
Brian Lowry
Variety
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That this superficial romance between a successful self-help author and a nurturing florist is also a film about overcoming the tragedy of losing a loved one only makes its clichéd insipidity that much more irksome.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/17/09
Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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A harmless time-waster that could have been more.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
09/17/09
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

For a sparkly star vehicle with aspirations no greater than highlighting the perfect bone structure of its featured players, Love Happens makes a good case for the three-act formula of a skillfully crafted Hollywood romance.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment 1 Comment
09/17/09
Ted Fry
Ted Fry
Seattle Times

The film has an uneven tone, unsure whether to mock [Eckhart's] rudimentary words of wisdom or play up his good intentions.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment 1 Comment
09/17/09
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

A surprisingly thoughtful romantic drama saddled with a climactic scene so cloying and artificial that one can hardly believe it's part of the same movie. And yet, what surrounds this five-minute faux pas is really kind of great.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
09/17/09
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

A cliche-ridden, treacly drama that trivializes the bereavement process while it makes romance look easy and like a foregone conclusion.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
09/17/09
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

The title is a good indication of this movie's blandness and predictability.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/17/09
Stephen Farber
Stephen Farber
Hollywood Reporter
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Love supposedly happens in Love Happens. We'll have to take their word for it.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
09/17/09
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press

Although the film begins promisingly, it proves to be little more than a soap opera.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
09/17/09
Calvin Wilson
Calvin Wilson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Charm can only carry a movie so far, of course. Love Happens is not destined to stick with us or become a romcom classic. It just... happened.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
09/17/09
Connie Ogle
Connie Ogle
Miami Herald

Burke’s hollow pop-psychspeak, lightly ridiculed at first, is wholly embraced by the film’s end, if not as adamantly as the outrageous product placements for Qwest and Home Depot.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
09/17/09
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson
L.A. Weekly

Love happens in Love Happens, along with hearts, flowers, wine, roses, sweetness, light and every other cliche the filmmakers can squeeze into a two-hour film.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
09/16/09
Rafer Guzman
Rafer Guzman
Newsday

Because there's no mystery, no chemistry and paper-thin characters, the movie coasts by on the charms of its two stars. And while Eckhart and Aniston are mighty appealing, they need to be given something more with which to work.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
09/16/09
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic

Love Happens is a comedy in mourning, a romance so sad that even Jennifer Aniston at her most engaging can't save it.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment 3 Comments
09/16/09
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
 
 
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