Happiness For Beginners is a romcom about a divorcee, Helen, who signs up for an Appalachian Trail survivalist course to 'try something new'. Helen(Ellie Kemper) discovers her brother's best friend Jake(Luke Grimes) has also signed up for the trip. The two unpack some baggage and get to know each other better.
Both Kemper and Grimes are stretching a bit, not only with the kind-of straight-down-the-middle Eat, Pray, Love/Wild knock-off but with the script which is better than Hallmark movie-of-the-week but not by much. Even so they put in credible performances, the comedy(which is unfortunately sparring) is effective and the saccharine elements mostly land, it works. The supporting cast is solid- Ben Cook as the trip leader and the various other participates all know their roles and deliver.
It's a cute, mostly well acted, unsurprising piece of Netflix filler. With the dearth of legit romcoms in the current Hollywood landscape, this is a pleasing piece of entertainment, in the romcom heyday of the 90's and 00's this wouldn't have made the smallest blip.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
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