Overview
- Happy Hours had its red‑carpet premiere at New York City's BMCC Theater on Saturday, June 6, at the Tribeca Film Festival, where Holmes and Joshua Jackson appeared together.
- Holmes wrote, directed and stars as Liz in the film, which follows former lovers who reconnect and forces a decision about whether to love again.
- The casting includes supporting roles for Constance Wu and Mary‑Louise Parker and reunites Holmes and Jackson onscreen for the first time in roughly two decades since Dawson's Creek.
- Filming in New York last year drew viral fan attention on platforms like TikTok that prompted tighter location controls and efforts to limit recordings during key scenes.
- Holmes frames Happy Hours as the first installment of a trilogy inspired by Richard Linklater’s Before films and says she plans shorter gaps between installments to follow the characters over time.