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Happy Times
Directed by
Zhang Yimou
PG
2000
1h 42m
Drama
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Comedy
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7.3
72%
78%
7.1
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An aging bachelor has to engage his old, laid-off friends to keep a blind girl happy as a masseuse at a non-existent massage parlor.
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Cast of Happy Times
Zhao Benshan
Lao Zhao
Dong Jie
Wu Ying
Dong Li-Fan
Wu Ying's Stepmother
Fu Biao
Little Fu
Li Xuejian
Li
Qibin Leng
Wu Ying's Stepbrother
Gong Jinghua
Aunty Liu
Niu Ben
Old Niu
Zhang Hongjie
Lao Zhang
Sun Honglei
Customer at Happy Times
Zhang Yimou
Director
Mo Yan
Novel
Gai Zi
Writer
Wang Wei
Executive Producer
Terrence Malick
Executive Producer
Zhang Weiping
Producer
Cao Juiping
Art Direction
Hou Yong
Director Of Photography
San Bao
Original Music Composer
Happy Times Ratings & Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
..it pulls all the heart strings it can in a shameless attempt to get real emotions.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
A provocative, touching, surprising and obliquely illuminating piece.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
Not a film to rival To Live, but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted.
Dallas Morning News
Tom Sime
The performances are winning all around. And the comic, slice-of-life feel is charming, but takes a hike as the film progresses.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of Hollywood heart-string plucking.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
An engaging and specific portrait of a culture in transition, even as it evokes humanity's most universal and timeless values.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Gently humorous and touching.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
To me, it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence, with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Endows humanist cinema with a heroic moral dimension.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This is a film, like City Lights, that blends darkness and light, laughter and tears -- expertly and with love.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
One feels the dimming of a certain ambition, but in its place a sweetness, clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early Italian neorealism.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Occasionally funny and consistently odd, and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for Zhao.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Sentimentality and the comedy of deception conspire to enchanting effect.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Worth watching for Dong Jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie is best when it's deadpan, before it veers from O. Henry irony to Chaplin pathos.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Simultaneously poignant, engagingly funny and bittersweet, it mixes its elements in a way that is completely its own.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Wise, gentle and sad.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
That Zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center, no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
With an expressive face reminiscent of Gong Li and a vivid personality like Zhang Ziyi's, Dong stakes out the emotional heart of Happy.
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