Directed by:
Sherry HormannScreenplay:
Sherry HormannComposer:
Stéphane MouchaCast:
Johanna Wokalek, Iris Berben, Richy Müller, David Kross, Benjamin Sadler, Itay Tiran, Michael Gwisdek, Katharina Marie Schubert, Rüdiger Vogler (more)Plots(1)
Tiffany Blechschmid is a neurotic, moody, superstitious, contradictory and - no surprises here - single young woman in her late 20s. Although she sells fortune cookies in her Berlin gourmet shop, she has a great personal mistrust of good fortune, and especially of happiness. It seems like every hard-won moment of happiness is followed by some kind of disaster. It's enough to make her question the whole concept of happiness. Why is everyone so determined to find it? Does it always have something to do with love? And why do we always mess up just when we're getting close to it, like when the man of Tiffany's dreams suddenly appears in the flesh? (HBO Europe)
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With Germans, one never quite knows what kind of comedy to expect. The Pursuit of Unhappiness didn’t look exactly great at first glance. But since I came home from work hungry like a wolf and this movie was just starting on HBO, I let it play for a while; and then I ended up finishing it thanks to its short running time. The lead actress who pretends to be younger than she actually is was fairly okay as a pursuer of unhappiness and I even had fun here and there. But here and there, it was also boring, despite the fact that it was wacky in the usual German fashion.
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