With a cast including
Jean Simmons and
Shirley Jones and a tagline reading “We’re not in love. We just make love,”
Richard Brooks’s
The Happy Ending (1969) is worth a second look. A largely forgotten Hollywood drama about suburban housewives who cope badly with their husband’s lascivious ways, the homey slice of misery stars Simmons as a booze-and-drug-addicted wife in deep denial. When
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