PRAISE
“Happy Hour is a lush, elegiac film about an extremely difficult subject and Ms. Claggett handles it masterfully.”
– Robert Benton (Academy Award Winning Writer/Director: Bonnie and Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart, Nobody’s Fool)
“Happy Hour has a mission — to start conversations that can save children — but it’s also a powerful drama. A wider audience awaits.”
− Jesse Kornbluth, HeadButler.com
“Poignant and powerful filmmaking on a tough subject. Happy Hour beautifully raises the issue and reality of child sexual abuse while giving voice to many who’ve been silent too long.”
− Anne Lee, Creator and Founder, Darkness to Light
Logline
When a woman meets her boyfriend for a romantic night out, a martini triggers childhood memories that threaten her ability to trust and love.
Short Synopsis
When a woman meets her boyfriend for a romantic night out, a martini triggers childhood memories of sexual abuse by a family friend. She boldly faces the girl she was and the secret that’s threatened her ability to trust and love.
— Based on a poem, narrated by Julianne Moore.
FAQs
with Filmmaker Gretl Claggett