ANOTHER HAPPY DAY (2011)

Another Happy Day - billed as both a comedy and drama (not sure "comedy" even loosely fits) on IMDB - is the story of volcanic, high-strung Lynn (Ellen Barkin), who travels to Annapolis with her husband and three younger children to attend the wedding of her oldest child, a son she's been both physically and emotionally distanced from since he was a kid.  There, she has to contend with her coldly impersonal mother (Ellen Burstyn), ailing father (George Kennedy), and bitchy sisters, all while keeping her drug-addicted son (Ezra Miller) and emotional wreck of a daughter (Kate Bosworth) from going under while also dealing with her ex (Thomas Haden Church) and his overbearing second wife (Demi Moore) ... the "family reunion" Lynn was hoping for unleashing more of the family's insanity instead.  Burstyn and Miller are especially great, but Barkin overplays, oozing melodrama, and you never really grow to care about these people, making the film even more of a downer.  Average. (rated R)  **1/2

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