The Happy Ending
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1hr
52mins
Directed by
Richard Brooks,
Starring
Jean Simmons,
John Forsythe,
Shirley Jones,
Lloyd Bridges
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The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.