Digital
Happy Accidents (2001)
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included · Mechanical
Happy Accidents
A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary New York City where past and future experiences of trust, commitment and denial are cleverly put to the test. Just as Ruby is beginning to relish her first-ever healthy relationship, Sam begins muttering about being a time traveler from the year 2470.
Romance, Comedy, Science Fiction
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel drives much of the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Sam's claimed future origin and the eventual temporal intervention structure the romance's central uncertainty.
Dialogue explicitly identifies a time machine set to 1999, and the ending confirms actual travelers; the causal-history discussion does not depict a repeatedly experienced interval.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan51.7
Weighted archive score
Time-travel significance7/10
high confidence
Quality consensus7.0/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 87.38 base × 59.2% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Vincent D'Onofrio, Holland Taylor, Nadia Dajani, Tamara Jenkins
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Releases & formats
3 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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Digital
Happy Accidents (2001)
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DVD
Happy Accidents (2001)
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- Release date
- Dec 17, 2002
- Studio
- Unknown
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)