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Happy Tears

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Above, from top: The Buzzard Man; the shoe salesman selling boots to Parker Posey; Demi Moore and Parker Posey; Parker Posey and Demi Moore; Rip Torn.

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Above, from top: writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein; buzzards can read.

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Written and Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein

2009
Feature film
Roadside Attractions

Produced by Joyce Pierpoline

Director of Photography: Jamie Anderson

Production Design: Paul Avery

“Buzzard” makeup by Louie Zakarian

Casting by Karl Stavem


With: 
Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin, Christian Camargo, Victor Slezak, Patti D’Arbanville, T. Ryder Smith, et al.

Synopsis

Returning to Pittsburgh in order to care for their slowly degenerating dad, a pair of grown-up sisters quickly realize that he is in total denial about his condition. The younger sister has been shielded from the harsher side of life since she was little, and now as the older sister begins pushing her to accept their bleak reality, their father takes a seedy lover who immediately rubs the girls the wrong way. But dealing with the father becomes the least of the sister’s worries when the drama in their personal lives drags the demons of their past up to the surface and out into the open.

I appear a short, surrealistic scene where one of the sisters hallucinates that the salesman helping her choose a pair of boots becomes a life-sized buzzard.

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