Connection
Accidents Happen is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 23 april 2009 with Geena Davis
Accidents Happen (2011)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listAccidents Happen is a 2010 Australian coming of age comedy drama film directed by Andrew Lancaster and starring Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Sebastian Gregory, Harry Cook, Joel Tobeck and Sarah Woods. Written by Brian Carbee, based on his own childhood and adolescence, the story revolves around an accident-prone teenage boy and his family. The film was shot in Sydney, New South Wales over June – July 2008, and opened in Australia on 22 April 2010.
Synopsis
In 1974, the Conway family are at a drive-in theater in Connecticut watching The Three Stooges. The parents are Gloria (Geena Davis), a foul-mouthed and strict mother who will always take responsibility over the family, Ray (Joel Tobeck), an easy going father, and siblings Linda, Gene, Larry (Harry Cook) and Billy (Harrison Gilbertson) who is an accident-prone child. In the meantime, the Conway's neighbor, Douglas "Doug" Post (Sebastian Gregory), whom Gloria hates and often calls him names because he is the one who causes problems that could be offensive towards the family, drives by on his bike and Gene leads him up to the top of the drive-in screen. Gene then proceeds to urinate out of the screen. While an infuriated Gloria trips as she approaches the screen, the police are dispatched to handle the situation as infuriated and confused guests honk at Gene and Doug. While driving back home, an argument over the incident causes their car to collide with a pick-up truck during the rainy night. Although Gloria, Ray, Billy, and Larry only suffer minor injuries, Linda is killed and Gene is severely injured with severe brain damage (that could be fatal in a matter of time) and is left paralyzed from the head down.Actors
Geena Davis
(Gloria Conway)
Harrison Gilbertson
(Billy Conway)
Sebastian Gregory
(Doug Post)
Erik Thomson
(Bob)
Ivy Latimer
(Linda Conway)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Accidents Happen
There are 39 films with the same actors, 87193 with the same cinematographic genres (including 11864 with exactly the same 2 genres than Accidents Happen), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Accidents Happen, you will probably like those similar films :
Beautiful (2009)
, 1h35Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Deborra-Lee Furness, Peta Wilson, Sebastian Gregory, Tahyna Tozzi, Asher Keddie, Erik Thomson
Rating53%
In the fictional Adelaide suburb of Sunshine Hills, three teenage girls have disappeared: Jenny Wells (found in a dumpster with her body cut open), Teresa Fields (found impaled and hanging from a clothesline), and Amanda Howatt, who disappeared three days earlier.
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
, 1h40Directed by Julien Temple
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about music and musicians, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Musical films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Stacey Travis, Julie Brown
Rating55%
The film begins with three furry aliens--the blue Mac (Goldblum), the yellow Zeebo (Wayans), and the red Wiploc (Carrey)--traveling in a space ship. It's been a long time since they've had female companionship, and they receive a broadcast showing human females. They are titillated by these "hairless", shapely creatures and discover that the broadcast came from Earth, so they set off toward Earth and Southern California.
The Accidental Tourist (1989)
, 2h1Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright, Bill Pullman, David Ogden Stiers
Rating66%
Macon Leary (William Hurt) is a Baltimore writer of travel guides for reluctant business travelers, which detail how best to avoid unpleasantness and difficulty.
Angie (1994)
, 1h47Directed by Martha Coolidge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Aida Turturro, Geena Davis, Stephen Rea, James Gandolfini, Philip Bosco, Jenny O'Hara
Rating54%
Angie (Geena Davis) is an office worker who lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York and dreams of a better life. After learning that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie (James Gandolfini), she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband.
Hero (1992)
, 1h50Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy García, Joan Cusack, Kevin J. O'Connor, Tom Arnold
Rating64%
"Bernie" LaPlante is a pickpocket and petty criminal who anonymously rescues survivors of an aircraft crash, in order to steal some of their purses and wallets – losing a shoe in the process. He later meets a homeless Vietnam veteran, John Bubber, tells him about the rescue at the crash site and gives him his remaining shoe. When a television station offers $1 million to the "Angel of Flight 104", Bernie cannot claim the reward, due to his arrest while fencing credit cards he stole from the people he rescued. Bubber, however, uses the single shoe to take credit for the act. Bernie tries to tell people that Bubber is a fake, but the media has sensationalized the heroic Bubber, and everyone wants to believe in him rather than Bernie.
Charlie & Boots (2009)
, 1h41Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing, Morgan Griffin, Morgan Griffin, Bec Asha
Rating63%
Shane Jacobson plays Boots who takes his father (Paul Hogan) on a trip to fish on the northernmost tip of Australia because of something his father told him when he was a kid. Although he probably wasn't serious and can't remember it Boots decides to carry it out. They travel on a road trip from Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula in a Holden Kingswood, passing through towns like Tamworth. The film starts with the death of Gracie, Boots' mother and Charlie's wife. After Gracie's death, Boots goes to visit Charlie on the family farm, finding him locked away in the house in the dark, curtains drawn. Boots looks at a calendar on the wall with a picture of Cape York and remembers his father promising to take him fishing off the northernmost tip of Australia. As the trip starts out, Boots and Charlie seem tense but as the days pass they begin to rekindle their father-son relationship.
A League of Their Own (1992)
, 2h8Directed by Penny Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Feminist films, Sports films, Baseball films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Anne Ramsay
Rating72%
In 1988, Dottie Hinson attends the opening of the new All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. She sees many of her former teammates and friends, prompting a flashback to 1943.
Ava (2020)
Directed by Tate Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, John Malkovich, Diana Silvers, Geena Davis, Common
Rating55%
Une femme assasin du nom de Eve travaille pour une importante organisation secrète. Elle parcourt le monde. Une de ses missions se passe mal, elle va être contrainte de lutter pour sa propre survie.
In the Tall Grass (2019)
, 1h41Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Time travel films
Actors Patrick Wilson, Harrison Gilbertson, Rachel Wilson, Tiffany Helm
Rating55%
Becky DeMuth et son frère Cal voyagent à San Diego pour que Becky, enceinte de six mois, puisse donner son enfant à l'adoption. En s'arrêtant à l'extérieur d'une vieille église, ils entendent les cris de détresse d'un jeune garçon nommé Tobin, venant d'un champ de hautes herbes situé en face de l'église. Ils entendent ensuite sa mère, Natalie, le supplier de n'appeler personne. Inquiets, Becky et Cal entrent dans le champ mais sont vite séparés et découvrent que la distance qui les sépare change étrangement. De plus en plus paniqués, ils tentent de partir mais sont incapables de retrouver la route. La nuit tombe et Cal tombe sur Tobin, blessé et sale, tenant un corbeau mort, qui lui dit que le champ ne peut pas déplacer les choses mortes, avant d'enterrer le corbeau. Becky rencontre le père de Tobin, Ross, mais ils sont séparés plus tard par le champ. Tobin emmène Cal vers un rocher antique situé dans le champ et l'encourage à le toucher, mais ils sont interrompus par les cris de Becky, attaquée par une figure inconnue.
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
, 2h2Directed by Jeremy Sims
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantley, Harrison Gilbertson, Aden Young, Harrison Gilbertson, Bella Heathcote
Rating69%
As seen in flashbacks that occur throughout the film, Oliver Woodward is an Australian miner supplying copper for the war effort. He falls in love with Marjorie Waddell, a young woman ten years his junior. However, he is under constant pressure to enlist, especially from Waddell's father. He has the opportunity to do so when the British Army forms the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company to supplement the Royal Engineers; Woodward is commissioned to lead the unit.