Laura Hankin, HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT

Laura Hankin, HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT

Laura: Female friendship, I think, is so fascinating, particularly when women are thrown together not because of some deep connection, but because of some circumstance like being new mothers in the same neighborhood. In Happy and You Know It, a failed musician who has been kicked out of her band right before they get famous ends up taking a job singing to a playgroup of new moms and their babies on the Upper East Side. She gets drawn into their lives. Meanwhile, the mothers, who outwardly present as very perfect but are inwardly dealing with all sort of anxieties and worries about new motherhood, they grow to love this musician as well. Her presence begins to reveal some of the undercurrents in the playgroup that everyone's been trying to avoid acknowledging.