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HAPPY, TEXAS
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When two prison escapees - fraud
offender Harry Sawyer (Jeremy Northam) and Wayne Wayne
Wayne Jnr. (Steve Zahn) - arrive in the small Texan town of
Happy in their getaway mobile home, they are mistaken for
Pageant Masters brought in to coach the towns entrants in
the districts "Little Miss Fresh Squeezed" Pre-Teen Beauty
Pageant.
Realising that this could provide an unexpected safe-haven from their fugitive status, the two reluctantly adopt the personas of the gay pageant gurus, and set about weaving their magic with the local kids.
Keeping up the act, however, complicates their relationships with both the men, and women of the town. Described as a contemporary screwball-western farce, Happy, Texas was a hit at the 1999 Sundance Festival, earning Steve Zahn the Special Jury Prize for his performance.
Screening at the Rialto Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch.
Screening this week at the Rialto...
AUCKLAND ---------
All About
My Mother, Boys Don't Cry, The Cider House Rules, The
Dinner Game, East Is East, The End of the Affair, Happy
Texas, Hopeless, Human Traffic, Snow Falling On Cedars, Tea
With Mussolini HAMILTON ---------
American
Beauty, Boys Don't Cry, East Is East, The End of The Affair,
The Green Mile, Happy Texas, Hopeless, Snow Falling On
Cedars
PALMERSTON NORTH ------------------
American
Beauty, The Cider House Rules WELLINGTON -----------
All
About My Mother, Buena Vista Social Club, East Is East,
Human Traffic CHRISTCHURCH -------------
East
Is East, The End of the Affair, The Green Mile, Happy Texas,
Hopeless, Human Traffic DUNEDIN --------
American
Beauty, Angela's Ashes, East Is East, The Green
Mile -----------------------------------------------------------------
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