Happy Accidents

Happy Accidents (2001) Here is another engaging small independent movie that never made much of a splash at the multiplexes. Looking at the jacket, your only clue that this is a ‘genre’ movie is the tag line “Sometimes the future is better than it used to be.” Our story concerns a pretty girl (Marisa Tomei) who has no luck in finding a decent guy to date. The term ‘all men are pigs’, tends to fall towards certainty whenever she goes on a date. She eventually meets Vincent D’Onofrio who appears to be a nice guy and she starts dating and falling for him. Now this guy is a little off center and has problems with lots of normal everyday stuff so we are always looking for the kicker in his story. Eventually he breaks down and tells her he’s from the future but her shrink tells her he’s a genuine loony tune. Ya just can’t tell fer sure; from his behavior and to boot he says he wants to protect her from dying in an accident very soon. Now we have the problem of not only is he a bit loose on cannons but could he be dangerously delusional to boot? What to do, what to do, and that coincidentally is the plot of this little piece. This is another good small movie and would get a higher rating but loses points for lack of any car chases, shootings and knifings. Oh well, if you can stand interesting characters and a modest science fictioney plot, this may be for you. The movie is rated R for: I’m not really sure why, it seemed PG to me.