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Love Happens
Directed by	Brandon Camp
Produced by	Scott Stuber Mike Thompson Nath V.G.
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
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	United States September 18, 2009[1] United Kingdom October 16, 2009[2]
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$18,000,000
Gross revenue	$26,830,887 [3]

Love Happens is a 2009 romantic 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 woman who works as a florist. 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.

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^[4]
• Frances Conroy as Eloise's mother
• Martin Sheen as the author's father-in-law^[4]
• Judy Greer as Marty, the florist's employee and friend^[4]
• Dan Fogler as Lane, the author's manager^[4]
• Joe Anderson as Tyler, the florist's musician boyfriend^[4]
• John Carroll Lynch as Walter, a reluctant seminar attendee^[4]
• Darla Vandenbossche as Beehive^[5]
• Panou as Unicom Executive #3, a Unicom Exec^[4]

Soundtrack

1. "The Time of Times" – Badly Drawn Boy
2. "Dream" – Priscilla Ahn
3. "Life In Ashes" – Curt Sobel and Gary Schreiner
4. "Lake Michigan" – Rogue Wave
5. "Fresh Feeling" – Eels
6. "Acidtar Bollyhop" – Curt Sobel and Gary Schreiner
7. "We Will Become Silhouettes" – The Postal Service
8. "Your Hand In Mine" – Explosions in the Sky
9. "Have A Little Faith in Me" – John Hiatt
10. "IO (This Time Around)" – Helen Stellar
11. "Everyday" – Rogue Wave

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.

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.^[7]

Reception

The film received generally negative reviews from critics.^[8] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 17% of critics gave positive reviews based on 65 reviews with a score of 3.9/10.^[9] 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.^[3][10]

References

External links

• Love Happens at the Internet Movie Database
• Love Happens at Box Office Mojo
• Official Site