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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Screenwriting Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, What Happened Was... is Tom Noonan's directorial debut; a darkly humorous take on dating dread. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending one claustrophobic Friday night together in an imposing apartment, the film exposes with startling clarity the ways in which people struggle to connect. As relevant now as ever, O-Scope undertook a brand new 4K restoration from the film's original 35mm negative and is making this pristine version widely available for the first time since the 90s.

1994 · 1h 31m
Director Tom Noonan

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What Happened Was...

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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Screenwriting Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, What Happened Was... is Tom Noonan's directorial debut; a darkly humorous take on dating dread. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending one claustrophobic Friday night together in an imposing apartment, the film exposes with startling clarity the ways in which people struggle to connect. As relevant now as ever, O-Scope undertook a brand new 4K restoration from the film's original 35mm negative and is making this pristine version widely available for the first time since the 90s.

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Average 7.8
Reviews 22
Fresh 20
Rotten 2

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Studio
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Released
1994
Run Time
1 hr 31 min
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
United States
© 1993 Genre Pictures

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Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC)

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English (United States) (CC)

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.