Happiest Season
A young woman plans to propose to her girlfriend but discovers that she hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents in this rom-com starring Mackenzie Davis (Tully) and Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga).
2020Rating: M, Offensive language & sexual references108 minsUSA
ComedyRomance
- Director:
- Clea DuVall ('The Intervention')
- Writer:
- Clea DuVallMary Holland
- Cast:
- Mackenzie DavisKristen StewartVictor GarberAlison BrieDan LevyAna GasteyerBurl MoseleyMary SteenburgenAubrey Plaza
Happiest Season / Reviews
Hollywood Reporter
Given DuVall's background as an actor it's unsurprising she draws such engaging work from her cast, with tasty individual characterizations, but more importantly, a group dynamic that's both lively and believable.
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Vanity Fair
DuVall employs a deft, subtle hand to tease out these conundrums, building to an everyone-blurts-out-the-truth climax that has earned its teary speechifying.
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Collider
Clea DuVall's new movie has some big laughs, but it's at its most potent when it examines what it means to join a family.
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Empire Magazine
An ode to impossible expectations, pride, bravery and loyalty, Happiest Season wraps up everything you could want for Christmas in a neat, thoughtful little bow.
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IndieWire
All of these orbiting characters can't dress up the wooden chemistry between Stewart and Davis, which stands in stark contrast to the actual chemistry between Stewart and Aubrey Plaza.
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Variety
At heart, "Happiest Season" is a serious, at times revolutionary mainstream comedy rooted in the sadness of a world where the closet, for too many people, still persists in some form.
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Entertainment Weekly
A smart, heartfelt comedy whose small flaws are easily blotted out by bigger charms.
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Rolling Stone
It's not a knockout, but the actors frequently are. The rest is an exercise in not overdoing it. It's here, it's queer, it's not much else -- and that's OK.
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Little White Lies
An earnest, endearing story about the pressure we put on ourselves to perform perfection.
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New York Post
Tonally, "Happiest Season" is a bit uneven; it can move from broad hijinks to high emotion a little too quickly. But it also delivers wonderfully heartfelt moments...
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