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Revenue: $0
Budget: $700,000
Profit: - $-700,000
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Status: Released
Average Rating: 7
Release Date: Feb 11, 2012
Rating: 2013-01-29
Run Time: 1h 15m
Original Language: English
Website: Link
Production Countries: United States of America
Production Companies: Wadi Rum Films
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Synopsis
Happy is a 2011 feature documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic. It explores human happiness through interviews with people from all walks of life in 14 different countries, weaving in the newest findings of positive psychology. Director Roko Belic was originally inspired to create the film after producer/director Tom Shadyac (Liar, Liar, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty) showed him an article in the New York Times entitled "A New Measure of Well Being From a Happy Little Kingdom". The article ranks the United States as the 23rd happiest country in the world. Shadyac then suggested that Belic make a documentary about happiness. Belic spent several years interviewing over 20 people, ranging from leading happiness researchers to a rickshaw driver in Kolkatta, a family living in a "co-housing community" in Denmark, a woman who was run over by a truck, a Cajun fisherman, and more.
Crew
Department | Role | Name |
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Production | Producer |
Adrian Belic
Pamela Harris
Hiji Han Shimizu
Frances Reid
Bhagyashree Raorane
Roko Belic
Jess Furman
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Executive Producer |
Tom Shadyac
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Writing | Writer |
Roko Belic
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Directing | Director |
Roko Belic
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Department | Role | Name |