23 May 2013. Interestingly, Love Happens doesn't get billed with a shared movie genre of comedy drama romance and maybe for perhaps good reason, it's hard to talk about a movie that has its basis as sudden death, it's a tragic theme and to make light of it would be sacrilegious to some. Instead its description on IMDb is Drama Romance. And while this movie is mostly by the numbers, it really is a fascinating script and directing a movie that is more comedy-drama than even romance. The romance is actually a supportive element in the comedy-drama rather than the primary component of the movie. Love Happens is more about coping or the lack of coping with death, being blind to it.
Funny scenes occur throughout the movie that retain their tastefulness and that's the beauty of this movie, is its ability to smoothly capture a multi-layered emotional tone without becoming manipulative or distasteful and that is what makes this movie stand out from the usual comedy, drama, romance movies. The richly beautiful occult-horror movie Constantine (2005) made us of the relational male-female connection without ever fully developing the relationship, while the classic comedy-horror film Ghostbusters (1984) is strongly suggestive of one or take one of the most famous of all comedy-drama-romance movies Charade (1963) using the deliciously edgy male-female relationship along its more dramatic and serious crime drama storyline.
Unlike Love Happens, other outstanding relational films that have the love story as the dominant theme include baseball-oriented The Natural (1984), while Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) using the an existing relationship in a reverse way to break it down as part of the suspense of this comedy-espionage-thriller, or Sandra Bullock and Sylvester Stallone relationship in The Demolition Man (1993), a sci-fi comedy, action thriller with its focus on the action pack scenes and mystery going on surround Stallone and the evil Wesley Snipes along with Bullock's deliciously fascinating future-speak, or the recent sci-fi romance movie Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) that using the relationship to propel the mystery of this slightly odd eccentric young man in his attempt to travel through time or take comedy-drama-romance of Ann Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) whose love relationship is background to the more exciting interplay of the workplace.
Perhaps closer to Love Happens is the sci-fi dramatic thriller Deja Vu (2006) that yet even has a stronger love component while also keeping the focus on the action-adventure-thriller element as its dominating theme while the relationship over give its a haunting heightened element of human importance Love Happens while a decent and entertaining movie doesn't quite that the ultimate emotional depth of as romantic-drama-fantasy If Only (2004) that involves death in a quite fascinating use of what-if theme, or the inspirational Robbin William's vehicle in a romantic dramatic fantasy in What Dreams May Come (1998)involving his struggle to attempt to beat death, or the entertaining depth of the relational comedy-drama of the lighter Music and Lyrics (2007), or the haunting duel, what-if split storyline in the fascinating romantic drama of Sliding Doors (1998). Slaughter-House Five (1972), a wonderfully odd but classic sci-fi uses romance as a unifying theme in this time-jumping LSD tripping movie and the creatively mind-spinning sci-fi, romance drama of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) each have a extra level of layered complexity going on to deliver its storyline, or finally the best picture comedy-drama-romance of Silver Lining Playbook (2012) dealing with mental illness and dance.
Nevertheless, Love Happens addresses the difficult topic of sudden death and handles its subject with taste and sensitivity while also providing a valuable and meaningful experience with a wonderful balance of emotions.
Funny scenes occur throughout the movie that retain their tastefulness and that's the beauty of this movie, is its ability to smoothly capture a multi-layered emotional tone without becoming manipulative or distasteful and that is what makes this movie stand out from the usual comedy, drama, romance movies. The richly beautiful occult-horror movie Constantine (2005) made us of the relational male-female connection without ever fully developing the relationship, while the classic comedy-horror film Ghostbusters (1984) is strongly suggestive of one or take one of the most famous of all comedy-drama-romance movies Charade (1963) using the deliciously edgy male-female relationship along its more dramatic and serious crime drama storyline.
Unlike Love Happens, other outstanding relational films that have the love story as the dominant theme include baseball-oriented The Natural (1984), while Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) using the an existing relationship in a reverse way to break it down as part of the suspense of this comedy-espionage-thriller, or Sandra Bullock and Sylvester Stallone relationship in The Demolition Man (1993), a sci-fi comedy, action thriller with its focus on the action pack scenes and mystery going on surround Stallone and the evil Wesley Snipes along with Bullock's deliciously fascinating future-speak, or the recent sci-fi romance movie Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) that using the relationship to propel the mystery of this slightly odd eccentric young man in his attempt to travel through time or take comedy-drama-romance of Ann Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) whose love relationship is background to the more exciting interplay of the workplace.
Perhaps closer to Love Happens is the sci-fi dramatic thriller Deja Vu (2006) that yet even has a stronger love component while also keeping the focus on the action-adventure-thriller element as its dominating theme while the relationship over give its a haunting heightened element of human importance Love Happens while a decent and entertaining movie doesn't quite that the ultimate emotional depth of as romantic-drama-fantasy If Only (2004) that involves death in a quite fascinating use of what-if theme, or the inspirational Robbin William's vehicle in a romantic dramatic fantasy in What Dreams May Come (1998)involving his struggle to attempt to beat death, or the entertaining depth of the relational comedy-drama of the lighter Music and Lyrics (2007), or the haunting duel, what-if split storyline in the fascinating romantic drama of Sliding Doors (1998). Slaughter-House Five (1972), a wonderfully odd but classic sci-fi uses romance as a unifying theme in this time-jumping LSD tripping movie and the creatively mind-spinning sci-fi, romance drama of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) each have a extra level of layered complexity going on to deliver its storyline, or finally the best picture comedy-drama-romance of Silver Lining Playbook (2012) dealing with mental illness and dance.
Nevertheless, Love Happens addresses the difficult topic of sudden death and handles its subject with taste and sensitivity while also providing a valuable and meaningful experience with a wonderful balance of emotions.