The Movie: Happy Accidents is a quirky, little known independent film that I happened across when Cami brought it home from the local video rental place. She's got a bit of a crush on Vincent D'Onofrio, who stars in this movie alongside Marisa Tomei. I call it quirky because it's definitely some sort of "romance" movie, but I wouldn't really call it a romantic comedy, but it definitely isn't a just a straight "chick flick".

Marisa Tomei plays a woman, who like the lead in so many romantic type movies, can never seem to find Mr. Right. Part of that is actually her fault, because she is the type of person who always wants to "fix" men who have problems. Well, her latest guy (Vincent D'Onofrio) is probably the nicest, most romantic type guy she's ever met. But he believes he's from the year 2470 and that he has traveled back in time to be with her.

At first, she accepts it as just some kind of wacky role playing type thing that would pass, but his descriptions and stories and history just seem too detailed to be made up. Is he really from the future? Or is he just insane?

The part that really kept me interested in the movie as it was going on was the way it walked the line between reality and fantasy -- sanity and insanity. For a chick flick, it definitely had a very interesting premise and it was quite well executed. So yeah, a nice, quirky little, not quite normal type chick flick, that maybe some of the more open minded guys could get into, and maybe the more open minded chicks would find romantic or something.

The DVD: This DVD seems about as low budget as the movie looked like it was. The video transfer was done from a rather dirty film print, with lots of black spots of dirt and whatnot all over the place, and one part even had a few frames where it look like the film was either distorted in some spots in the frame, or someone had spilled beer or something on it. On top of that, the transfer itself didn't not have great contrast, and it also showed some crushed blacks in places.

Audio was a bit better than the video, though most of it was centered on the center channel speaker, and it didn't particularly exhibit a whole lot of dynamic range, though I have a sneaking suspicion that's how it was on the original film. This is definitely not the movie to choose if you want to show off your home theater system.

Special features consisted of a trailer, and an audio commentary track, and that's pretty much it. A pretty basic, no-frills disc. Overall, I'd say it's definitely worth a rental and then I'd leave it up to you to decide if you actually want to buy it.