Synopsis
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, and the keenly challenging specter of adulthood. Sam Wexler is a struggling writer who's having a particularly bad day. When a young boy gets separated from his family on the subway, Sam makes the questionable decision to bring the child back to his apartment and thus begins a rewarding, yet complicated, friendship. Sam's life revolves around his friends — Annie, whose self-image keeps her from commitment; Charlie and Mary Catherine, a couple whose possible move to Los Angeles tests their relationship; and Mississippi, a cabaret singer who catches Sam's eye.
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Cast
- Josh RadnorSam
- Malin ÅkermanAnnie
- Kate MaraMississippi
- Zoe KazanMary Catherine
- Pablo SchreiberCharlie
- Tony HaleSam #2
- Michael AlgieriRasheen
- Jakob AppelmanSchool Boy
- Dana BarronThe Gynecologist
- Richard JenkinsPaul Gertmanian
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It might even live up to that title: When it ends, you wouldn't mind a bit more, please. - 67
The A.V. Club
HappyThankYouMorePlease has a different vibe than "Garden State" or "HIMYM." It's more like a late-'80s/early-'90s Woody Allen film, after Allen stopped separating his comedy and drama. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
The script is intermittently literate and frequently funny, the young cast (headed by Radnor) is highly appealing. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
With very little modification, the relationship woes of the six chirpy young New Yorkers in this self-absorbed indie could be reworked into episodes of TV's "How I Met Your Mother." - 55
NPR
This is among the better Allen knockoffs of recent years, even if a few of its riffs seem hazardously off-key. - 40
Variety
With the exception of Akerman's Annie, the characters are uniformly annoying, their stories insubstantial and the tone one of smug contentment. - 40
Village Voice
"Arrested Development's" Tony Hale nearly overcomes the gently worthless script, playing Annie's dork suitor, and convincingly transforming himself from toad to prince. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Treating their problems like they're the most important crises in the world is what people in their 20s do, but that doesn't mean we have to go along for the ride.
