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The Happy Sad: movie review

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The Happy Sad
The Happy Sad
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Time Out says

Couplings will be complicated and sexuality will be fluid in Rodney Evans’s drama about Brooklynites caught up in a carnal game of musical chairs. Stan (Cameron Scoggins) and Annie (Sorel Carradine) break up in a restaurant; their waiter, Aaron (Charlie Barnett), and his boyfriend, Marcus (Leroy McClain), have just decided they want to swing. Guess who Marcus hooks up with for his first outside tryst? Or who suddenly decides she may want to explore the Sapphic side of life? Kudos to Evans for making up for the galling lack of gay African-American screen representation while delivering hot-body eroticism, but reducing complex relationship issues to a typical indie-flick blatherathon—complete with performances of varying quality and stilted dialogue—isn’t helping anyone.

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Written by David Fear

Cast and crew

  • Director:Rodney Evans
  • Cast:
    • Leroy McClain
    • Cameron Scoggins
    • Sorel Carradine
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