Happy Texas (DVD)

Exhibit A – snippet from “Pageant World” article “Got an upcoming pageant in your small-town community? Need some help from a couple of fairy godfathers? Then look no further than David and Steven!! They’ll make all your wishes come true, helping you to host the teenage beauty pageant of your dreams.” Eyewitness account - Maddie, aged 8 Our teacher, Ms Schaefer, always organises our beauty pageant every year, and none of us girls ever get into ...
...help, after reading the article she found in “Pageant World”. She said two nice men were going to come and help us to win the pageant. When they turned up in their caravan, the big one (Steven) said he was going to handle the money, and the funny looking little one (David) was going to actually teach us everything we needed to know. He didn’t seem to know what he was doing at first, but eventually he got better at it, and so did we. Interview – suspect ...

pesky33 21.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Happy Texas (DVD)

Take 2 complete unknowns to movies and cast them as convicts on the run from the police, one is a car thief, one is a fraudster. Take Ron Perlman (City Of Lost Children, Alien Resurrection) playing a US Marshall chasing them and a third convict on the run who is a murderer. Then take the awesome William H Macy (pretty much playing a similar role to the one he did in Pleasantville so he's pretty typecast here) playing a small town sheriff who turns ...
...criminals steal a camper van that belongs to 2 gay pageant organizers who they are mistaken for and the "jokes" start and promptly finish there. Macy plays the small town cop very well, trying to hide his homosexuality from the bigots. It's basically a story of mistaken identity, people hiding their true selves and people hiding behind facades. The outcome of the local kids winning the show is pretty predictable. That they don't rob the bank, likewise ...

atytyut2434 20.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Happy Texas (DVD)

...one in Texas would be happy to have two gay men move in next door. Not that Im saying anything about Texas but it is down south and you know what they say....! The Actors If Happy, Texas' central plotline - of the two conmen coming to care about the small-town folk they were planning to dupe - is hardly unexpected, it's worked out with some warm and sensitive scripting, especially in the exchanges between Harry and Joe. Jeremy Northam turns in ...
...As the secondary couple Steve Zahn and Illeana Douglas get less support from the script and tend to ham it up accordingly. But acting honours are stolen, not for the first time by the peerless William H. Macy as the lovelorn sheriff. His Texas-shuffle number, in the gay bar where he takes Harry on a date, and his tearful response to Harry's rejection is genuinely moving It is a most enjoyable film based around relationships, amusing problems, situations ...

Rob664 05.05.2004 · Read full review
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