Overview
- The romantic dramedy Happy Hours, written, directed by, and starring Katie Holmes, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday and is being presented as the first installment of a planned trilogy.
- Holmes cast former Dawson’s Creek co-star Joshua Jackson opposite her, reuniting the pair on screen for the first time in about 25 years and prompting public recollections of their early friendship.
- On the Tribeca red carpet Jackson called their shared early years “very precious,” and he later published an Instagram appreciation post praising Holmes’s leadership on the film.
- Coverage of the premiere mixed film reporting with fashion attention — Holmes wore a Chloé lace-trimmed silk-satin gown and switched into a Magda Butrym slip dress with leather pants for the after-party — and intense fan reaction led to renewed romance speculation.
- Holmes has framed Happy Hours as a project about love across life stages and has said she wanted the film to stand apart from their Dawson’s Creek characters, while the festival debut may increase interest in the planned trilogy and in her growing directing career.