Love Happens

Love Happens
Directed by	Brandon Camp
Produced by	Scott Stuber Mike Thompson
Written by	Brandon Camp Mike Thompson
Starring	Aaron Eckhart Jennifer Aniston Frances Conroy Dan Fogler Martin Sheen Judy Greer
Music by	Christopher Young
Cinematography	Eric Alan Edwards
Editing by	Dana E. Glauberman
Studio	Relativity Media Stuber Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18) (United States) October 16, 2009 (2009-10-16) (United Kingdom) [1][2]
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$18 million[1]
Box office	$36,088,028[1] $8,610,119 (US DVD sales) [3]

Love Happens is a 2009 romance drama film written and directed by Brandon Camp and starring Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston. It was released on September 18, 2009.

Plot

Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart), is a successful Ph.D. and author of a self-help book that gives advice about dealing with the loss of a loved one. He writes the book after his wife dies in a car accident as a way to deal with the grief. While giving a workshop in Seattle, where his wife was from, he meets Eloise (Jennifer Aniston), a creative floral designer who owns her own flower-shop. It seems, however, that Burke has not been following his own advice, and in fact has not been dealing with the loss of his wife. In the end, he confesses to an audience that he was driving the car, and not his wife, as he previously maintained. Due to this, he blames himself for her death. Eloise, along with his wife's father (Martin Sheen), help Burke move past his wife's death. Burke goes to Eloise, telling her that she had spent the last few days getting to know the part of him that was not available and wondered was she interested in getting to know the part of him that was available.

Cast

• Aaron Eckhart as Burke Ryan, PhD, a widowed self-help author and therapist who holds a grief seminar^[4]
• Jennifer Aniston as Eloise, a florist and Burke's new friend, then girlfriend^[4]
• Frances Conroy as Eloise's mother
• Martin Sheen as Burke's father-in-law^[4]
• Judy Greer as Marty, Eloise's employee and friend^[4]
• Dan Fogler as Lane “Goddamn” Marshall, Burke's manager^[4]
• Joe Anderson as Tyler, Eloise's musician boyfriend, then ex-boyfriend^[4]
• John Carroll Lynch as Walter, a reluctant seminar attendee who lost his son^[4]
• Darla Vandenbossche as Beehive^[5]
• Panou as Unicom Executive #3, a Unicom Exec^[4]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album was released by Relativity Media Soundtracks.

1. The Time of Times – Badly Drawn Boy (3:17)
2. Dream – Priscilla Ahn (3:31)
3. Lake Michigan – Rogue Wave (5:01)
4. Fresh Feeling – Eels (3:38)
5. We Will Become Silhouettes – The Postal Service (4:59)
6. Your Hand In Mine – Explosions in the Sky (4:08)
7. Have A Little Faith in Me – John Hiatt (4:01)
8. IO (This Time Around) – Helen Stellar (5:05)
9. Everyday – Rogue Wave (3:38)
10. Little Wing - Christopher Young (6:02)
11. Love Happens - Christopher Young (3:22)

La-La Land Records later released an album of Christopher Young's score.

1. Love Happens (3:18)
2. Kaleidoscope Christmas (2:18)
3. A World In The Three Colors (2:18)
4. It's MMM... Good (1:48)
5. Crystal Flowers (2:12)
6. Walk The Talk (1:30)
7. Around Or Through? (3:55)
8. Past Isn't (3:34)
9. Joy Within Each Thought (1:56)
10. Groove E (1:31)
11. Each Decorated Ditch (2:43)
12. Vodka Logic (3:41)
13. Mind Noise (4:20)
14. Cinnamon Life (2:44)
15. We're A-OK (2:44)
16. Love Happened (6:02)
17. Baggage Blister Hoedown (1:53)
18. A Consonant Cry (3:04)
19. A Dissonant Discourse (2:57)
20. Why The Hell Am I In Heaven? (2:38)
21. Not Really Postlude (3:18)
22. Freud Who? (1:52)
23. Fast Toward The Eye (Of Lorelei) (3:49)

Tracks 17–23 are bonus tracks.

Production

During development, the film was known as Brand New Day and Traveling.^[6]

The film takes place in Seattle, Washington, and was filmed in Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.^{[citation needed]}

On September 15, 2009, a lawsuit was filed by two writers claiming that the film's premise was stolen from them, seeking an injunction against its release or to be awarded the film's future profits, estimated at $100,000,000.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes reported that 17% of critics gave positive reviews based on 107 reviews with a score of 3.9/10.^[7] Another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from reviews of mainstream critics, gave the film a "generally unfavorable" score of 33% based on 25 reviews.^[8]

On its opening weekend, the film opened at #4 behind I Can Do Bad All By Myself, The Informant!, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs respectively with $8,057,010.^[1][9]

Home media

Love Happens was released on DVD & Blu-ray on February 2, 2010. It grossed $7,721,633 in US DVD sales.^[10]

References

External links

• Official website
• Love Happens at the Internet Movie Database
• Love Happens at Box Office Mojo
• Love Happens at Rotten Tomatoes
• Love Happens at allmovie
• Love Happens at Metacritic
• Love Happens at the TCM Movie Database