Synopsis
During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.
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Cast
- CommonDaniel
- Bradley WhitfordMr. Schneedy
- Allison JanneyPrincipal Nichols
- Anders HolmMr. McRow
- Rob RiggleMr. Pendlehorn
- Katie HolmesParamedic #1
- Nat FaxonParamedic #2
- Jennifer GarnerNadine
- Marcus EckertDarius
- Storm ReidPatricia
Recommendations
- 80
Film Threat
A sweet, introspective, and touching story serves as the heart of this outrageous and twisted dark comedy. - 65
Paste Magazine
It’s occasionally delightful, frequently funny, and good enough to make me look forward to what Greer will do next behind the camera. - 60
Arizona Republic
The story doesn't really have a focused plot. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Judy Greer, the wonderful film and TV actress, makes an inauspicious directing debut with this unevenly paced, tonally awkward comedy. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
In the case of the awkwardly titled, swing-and-a-big-miss workplace comedy A Happening of Monumental Proportions, there are numerous scenes so tone-deaf, so off-putting and fundamentally unsound in structure and dialogue, the execution of those sequences is doomed from the get-go. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Featuring appearances by a dizzying assemblage of well-known and estimable performers, A Happening of Monumental Proportions is a perfect example of a bad movie happening to good actors. The problem doesn't stem so much from Greer's helming but rather the painfully unfunny script by Gary Lundy. - 30
Film Journal International
It is a tremendous disappointment to find such estimable folk meandering in an only intermittently amusing story of no clear point or theme. - 25
The Film Stage
I need to therefore believe Judy Greer selected it as her directorial debut because she thought she could somehow infuse a little satire and approach highlighting examples of masculine vulnerability — a goal that was sadly not achieved.
