Rotten
A well-developed and acted and potentially significant 'woman's movie' unfortunately drowns in Brooks' over indulgences and over-writing.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Happy Ending
Marriage is a 30 billion dollar business! And that's just to get married.
1969 · 1h 52m · R
Drama
Directed by
Richard Brooks
Overview
When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read about in fairy tales. Now it's 16 years later; Fred has had an affair, and Mary drowns her sorrows in pills and booze, a dangerous combination that nearly resulted in her death the year before. As Mary rushes off to the Bahamas for a relaxing escape from her crumbling marriage, she reflects on the past and wonders just where it all went wrong.
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Tomatometer
Rotten
The Happy Ending is a kind of false Faces -- a movie that set out to expose the kitsch of Hollywood fantasy.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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