A Million Happy Nows

A Million Happy Nows (2017)

A veteran soap opera star retires to a beach house with her publicist and partner, but her Early Onset Alzheimer's will strain the couple's relationship until they find the strength to redefine themselves and what they mean to one another.

Date of release
2017-03-15
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Albert Alarr

Casting

Interesting facts

A Million Happy Nows is a 2017 American independent drama film written by Marisa Calin and directed by Albert Alarr. The film stars Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia as a lesbian couple dealing with the diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's.

Production

Stars Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia acquired a very devoted fanbase following their extremely popular pairing as Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera Aitoro on CBS’ Guiding Light. Since airing in 2009, the storyline, given the portmanteau “Otalia”, which received critical acclaim and earned Chappell an Outstanding Lead Actress Daytime Emmy nomination, has received around 30 million views on YouTube.

In response to the overwhelming global support and positive outpouring from the underrepresented LGBT community, Chappell (now a recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Ally Award) created her production company, Open Book Productions, to bring original programming to the screen, producing Venice: The Series, which received the 2011 Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime - the first Emmy awarded to content produced for the web, an…

Open Book Productions was approached by writer Marisa Calin in 2013 and began the collaboration to bring A Million Happy Nows to the screen with Calin's production company Perfect Features.

A Million Happy Nows represents the first big-screen pairing of Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia.

Principal photography took place in California over 20 days in late 2014. The majority of the film was shot in a house overlooking the ocean on the Malibu coast. Post-production was completed at Technicolor in New York in mid 2016.

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