The funny-sad "Happy-Go-Lucky" is not quite on a level with Leigh's best - which, for me, would be "Life is Sweet" and the Gilbert and Sullivan drama "Topsy-Turvy" - but it's a small, radiant gem in a movie season cluttered with rhinestones. You leave the theater feeling both ...
Powell did this one with Martin with the hope that dramatic parts would eventually come his way and Happy Go Lucky is certainly amusing enough. Powell and Eddie Bracken play a pair of beachcombers on a tropical island in the Caribbean created nicely on the Paramount sound stage. Martin is a...
Their relationship takes an unexpected detour when Poppy begins dating a handsome social worker (Roukin), and Scott grows increasingly jealous of the new man in his student's life. Happy-Go-Lucky is beautifully observed, … Read the full-text article, try us out FREE today Related books and...
Pauline ‘Poppy’ Cross, the title character of Mike Leigh’s winning comedyHappy-Go-Lucky, is a litmus test like determining whether a glass is half-full or half-empty. Is it so unreal for someone to be so good and so strong? In a world that seems to be over-populated with a bunch...
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) Running Time: 1 hr. 58 min. MPAA Rating: R 2008 | Dramatic Comedy | H Andrea Riseborough | Eddie Marsan | Sally Hawkins “H appy-Go-Lucky” chronicles several days in the life of Poppy (Sally Hawkins), an intensely cheerful London primary school teacher. As she...
GAME REVIEW | A Trigger-Happy-Go-Lucky Time With "Dick Wilde" Sequel Sometimes you just want to go out and do some hunting. However, the fact that it costs quite a lot for ammunition and gear -- on top of the fact that some animals are just too cute to shoot -- can often take ...
character. There are many different sides to the character, the happy-go-lucky side, immature side, mischievous and playful side, lonely side, determined side, loyal side. Liked how he likes to hang from chandelier haha. Felt that it was a strange but cool entrance when I saw it the ...
Farley’s happy-go-lucky Tommy Callahan has, after seven years, managed to graduate from Marquette and head home for Sandusky, Ohio, to join the family auto-parts manufacturing firm run by his hearty dad, Big Tom (Brian Dennehy). Considerably less than thrilled to see him is Spade’s Rich...
Jeff Bridges is in fine shape as the happy-go-lucky Flynn (or Clu), who is content to run an arcade until persuaded by Boxleitner to help block Warner’s villainous schemes. And Cindy Morgan isn’t in bad shape either as his spunky lab assistant (Lora/Yuri) who once had an affair ...
he might just as well be a poor man’s James Bond who is none the wiser than us spectators. His emanates one prominent impression, a happy-go-lucky sort who is more prone to play a detective than to be one, regarding other people’s foibles with perpetual amusement.In the film, Fletc...