1999 · comedy · crime · indie
Happy, Texas
Directed by Mark Illsley1h 38m1999
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
Our read: Happy, Texas (1999) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · indie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
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