Happy Here and Now
2002·United States·89 min.
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In New Orleans, a young woman named Muriel goes missing. Her sister, Amelia, arrives to look for her. Aided by her aunt's lover, an ex-CIA agent named Bill, Amelia finds evidence on Muriel's computer of conversations with a mysterious and philosophical man. Bill and Amelia's search for him is fitful, but we learn that he's Eddie, a local exterminator who wants to produce and direct a movie about Nicholas Tesla. We follow Eddie, full of schemes, and we meet his brother, Tom, a firefighter who may know something about the death of a man whose widow, Hannah, seeks him out. What has happened to Muriel? Is this a world where anything can be known?
DirectorMichael Almereyda
ScreenwriterMichael Almereyda
MusicDavid Julyan
CinematographyJonathan Herron
CastDavid Arquette·Liane Balaban·Gloria Reuben·Ally Sheedy·Karl Geary·Shalom Harlow·Clarence Williams III·Josephine Martin·Isabel Gillies·Nic Ratner
Original titleHappy Here and Now