Happy End

La crise des migrants vécue par un couple de bourgeois du Nord de la France…

Happy End ist ein satirischer Alptraum des Reichtums im großbürgerlichen Europa: So klar, brilliant und unversöhnlich wie Halogenlicht. Es ist so mitreißend wie eine teuflische Soapopera, eine Dynastie der verlorenen Seelen.

A middle-class family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

"Tout autour le Monde et nous au milieu, aveugles." Instantané d’une famille bourgeoise européenne.

The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween …

An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence. The grieving father is shown the error of his assumption by the ghost of his grandfather (Harry Carey), who through flashbacks details the good things about the son's short term on Earth, and the wonderful life that the druggist himself has enjoyed. Frances Dee plays Don Ameche's wife, while Ann Rutherford portrays his son's girl (who in turn is played in a flashback sequence by former Little Rascal Darla Hood).

Six more first-hand accounts of sexual awakening amongst school girls in the early Seventies - some with a happy end, some without.