by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Happy Ending was intended as a satire of the emptiness of suburban life. Jean Simmons (then the wife of producer/ director/ writer Richard Brooks) is bored silly by her 16-year marriage to John Forsythe. She jets off to the Bahamas and launches an affair with gigolo Bobby Darin. Then she...yes, we said Bobby Darin. Then she realizes that what she really lacks in life is a decent education, so she returns to her husband and enrolls in night school. This, of course, occurs only after she experiments with booze, drugs, and Bobby...yes, we said Bobby Darin.
characteristics
- Marriage-problems
- Marital-problems
- Party
- Suburban Dysfunction
- Suicide-attempt
- Adulterer
- Infidelity
- Crumbling Marriages
- Anniversary
- Adultery
- Extramarital-affair
- Alcohol
- Midlife Crises
- Liquor
- Drugs
