Happythankyoumoreplease (2011)

Name: Happythankyoumoreplease
Director: Josh Radnor
Released: 2011

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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What critics compared Happythankyoumoreplease to

Garden State (2004)

Directed by Zach Braff

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“Happythankyoumoreplease” is less mopey and downbeat than TV star Zach Braff’s “Garden State.”

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But HappyThankYouMorePlease has a different vibe than Garden State or HIMYM.

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So the fact that Radnor has written, directed and stars in his very own Garden State with the cutesy title Happythankyoumoreplease, in which he plays Sam Wexler, a struggling novelist who hearts New York, loves being in love and yes, gloms onto life's little coincidences - in this case, a boy (Michael Algieri) he runs into on the subway and decides he needs to help - tells you too much already.

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Radnor, the star of TV’s “How I Met Your Mother,” wrote and directed this romantic comedy, which has the feel but not the quirks of films such as “(500) Days of Summer” and “Garden State”: tales of clueless guys trying to get in touch with their own flaws so that they might actually be right for the woman they’re drawn to.

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While it may not be the next Garden State, Happythankyoumoreplease is a refreshing and witty romantic comedy that despite not doing anything terribly new or inspired, hits all the right notes and comes together to make a very worthy directorial debut for Mr. Radnor.

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Though Happythankyoumoreplease is bound to be compared to so-called slacker films like Garden State and Reality Bites, the fact remains that, in a cinematic world in love with man-children who refuse to grow up, here at least are young adults who, though they may go kicking and screaming, at least acknowledge the necessity of the transition.

Brandon Fibbs • Apr 1, 2011

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