- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Release: 2009-10-16
- Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
- Writers: Mitchell Lichtenstein
- Language: English | French
- Stars: Parker Posey , Demi Moore , Rip Torn , Ellen Barkin , Peter Patrikios , T. Ryder Smith , Christian Camargo , Victor Slezak , Melissa Ticen , Julianna Conforti
- Runtime: 92 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: Happy Tears (United Kingdom) , Mutluluk Gözyaşları (Turkey) , Lágrimas de felicidad (Argentina) , Lágrimas de felicidad (Spain) , Dakrya haras (Greece) , Happy Tears (United States of America) , Happy Tears , Mit glücklichen Tränen (Germany) , Сълзи от радост (Bulgaria) , Tränen des Glücks (Germany) , Łzy szczęścia (Poland) , Lágrimas de Felicidade (Brazil) , Слезы счастья (Russian Federation)
- Plot: Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne hopes that their father's condition isn't that serious. Joe is still singing and playing his old guitar, and the lively widower even has a new "ladyfriend," shameless and sassy Shelly. But as the visible moments of their father's impending senility increase, so do the dysfunctional family dynamics. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura's busy schedule as an environmentalist and mother of two small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson. Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! Any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones.
- IMDB:tt1219828
Happy Tears Cast · · · ALL
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Director
Parker Posey
Jane
Demi Moore
Laura
Ellen Barkin
Shelly
Christian Camargo
Jackson
Rip Torn
Joe
Billy Magnussen
Ray
Richard Barlow
(I)
Mitch
Peter Patrikios
Driver
Susan Blommaert
Mallory
Celia Weston
Neighbor
Roger Rees
Antiques Dealer
Marilyn Yoblick
Yard Sale Woman
Patti D’Arbanville
Joe's Nurse
Sebastian Roché
Laurent